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

Categorized in : Sports

When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

Dan Jenkins

thief whatever enough play

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

Dan Jenkins

places know sand dubai

Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.

Dan Jenkins

man wife age children

Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

Dan Jenkins

look morning sports war

I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.

Dan Jenkins

survive know news television

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

Dan Jenkins

missed never deadline life

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

Dan Jenkins

riddles entertained literary like

Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.

Dan Jenkins

he president golf time

Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.

Dan Jenkins

any club parking decent

I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

Dan Jenkins

ben anywhere follow nelson

All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.

Dan Jenkins

try done truth matter

Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.

Dan Jenkins

better things money important

Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.

Dan Jenkins

going she make million-dollars

Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.

Dan Jenkins

name nothing think god

I love Twitter.

Dan Jenkins

twitter i-love love

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

Dan Jenkins

heroes been always real