Dan Jenkins Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“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.”

“There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.”

“There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.”

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

“I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.”

“Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.”

“Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.”

“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.”

“If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.”

“If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.”