As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp. Dan Jenkins More Quotes by Dan Jenkins More Quotes From Dan Jenkins Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes. Dan Jenkins tennisclothesgames Golfers don't fist fight. They cuss a bit. But they wouldn't punch anything or anybody. They might hurt their hands and have to change their grip. Dan Jenkins fightinghurthands There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them. Dan Jenkins momentsgolfforget Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists. Dan Jenkins musicbodyeye Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section. Dan Jenkins leadershipfootballsports I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas. Dan Jenkins playraingolf Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits. Dan Jenkins junebasketballfunny Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all. Dan Jenkins firegolfkids When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall. Dan Jenkins gallerywinningfirsts I've never considered myself a novelist even though I've written a number of books and happily made some money, i've always considered myself a journalist first or a sports writer first and always will. That's the business I've loved. It's the only thing I ever wanted to do. Dan Jenkins sports Being from The Fort Worth Press, I would follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere, since theyre in there, Im happy to be the third guy from The Fort Worth Press so included. Dan Jenkins sports Id never experienced even as an old, cynical writer as much excitement as all of us felt that afternoon following that action, there have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them. But that one still stands out. ... There have been so many great tournaments that Ive been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that Im awfully grateful for it. Dan Jenkins sports Even though I was making a stab at humor, I dont think I ever wrote a line I didnt believe, i tried not to draw too much blood. I tried to rave about all the heroes of the game, and they deserved it. ... When something great happens like when an Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods or Ben Hogan happens you dont have to be funny, you just have to be accurate. Dan Jenkins sports Oakland Hills looked more like a penitentiary than a golf course. Dan Jenkins sports When you have to be funny is when youre on deadline and somebody like Jack Fleck creeps up on you. Dan Jenkins sports Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health. Dan Jenkins nobodyyouhealthlong Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet. Dan Jenkins tigerplanetnobodywoods The first president I met was L. B. J. Dan Jenkins metfirstpresident I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years. Dan Jenkins dayyoucoffeemorning Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles. Dan Jenkins usballtellgentleman
