Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.
— Dan Jenkins
Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.
I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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.
Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.
Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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.
There are no Dave Marrs anymore.
Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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.
I love Twitter.
Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.
The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
You can't have a U.S. Open anymore without an extra course to store all the hospitality tents. I used to be able to drive up to the clubhouse and park like the players. Now, there are seven corporate hospitality guys who have my spot, and I'm on a bus.
The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.
I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.
I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
I hate political correctness.
I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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.
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.
All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.
Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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.
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.
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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.
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.
Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.
My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.
