137 Quotes by Dan Jenkins

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    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.

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    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.

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    The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.

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    Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.

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    Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.

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    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.

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    Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

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    Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

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    Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

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