Dan Jenkins Quotes

I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

In Dallas, life is a little slower. It's a little more day-to-day routine. It's just a simpler life. At the end of the day, I love Texas girls, and I kind of relate to them.

Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact.

I love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thought they were incredibly exotic. They also seemed to be a central part of a specifically 'Texan' identity, one distinct from being 'American.'

I don't care if I never see Texas again.

Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

I had never been to Texas. I'd been through Texas, but I'm so glad to be back in a place that's not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, it's rich and saturated in American-ness.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

I love working in Texas anywhere.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time.

There's something about driving through Texas, and it's hot, your skin is sticking to you. The environment affects your attitude and your swagger.