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Dan Jenkins is a renowned American author born on December 2, 1929. Known for his humor and satire, Jenkins' works primarily revolve around sports, journalism, and popular culture. His novels and column articles have earned him acclaim in both literary and sports circles.

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“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.”

Mean Stills Lying Games Forget Party Gone Wife Team Directors Sitting Coaches Managers Owners Athletic Digging Life Means Risking Your Life General Manager

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

Ifs Would Be Games Lines Mouths Baseball Thirds Drivers

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“Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.”

Thinking Games Rich Fool Golf Weekend Awkward

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“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.”

Different Play Games Water Enemy Player Tree Week Wind Percent Golf Athlete Clubs Grass Sand Bags Golfers Fourteen

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“Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.”

Facts Funny Lying Games Stuff Simple Race Player Basketball Areas Balls Dresses Rings Charm Up And Down Hanging On Funny Basketball

Book:YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!

Source: YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!

“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.”

Games Drink Clothes Tennis Regions Wealthy Village Englishmen County Diversion Kent Samantha

Book:YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!

Source: YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!

“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.”

Passion Games Mankind Emotional Camps Historian Platforms Indulge My Passion Colorful Hysterical

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Born: December 2, 1929
Known for: Author
Quotes: 30

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