Dan Jenkins
Dan Jenkins
Dan Jenkinsis an American author and sportswriter who often wrote for Sports Illustrated...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
fascinated grab mainly morning newspapers sports war
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.
worried
CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
associated college favorite football golf life played sports though
My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
great paid people privileged
There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.
accustomed last majors might poked press print
The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print press for being mired in August, but this isn't fair.
athlete golf player
The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes to play, all of them different, every week; and all around him is sand, trees, grass, water, wind and 143 other players. In addition, the game is 50 percent mental, so his biggest enemy is himself.
golf iron wife
A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.
golf snow soul
The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
golf practice play
I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.
stories able way
In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
golf men mind
Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.
golf forget moments
There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
passion emotional games
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.
golf lectures balls
The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.