Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Baseball, football, basketball - these quintessentially American pastimes are recognizably sports because they involve play: they are games. One plays football, one doesn't play boxing...The boxing match is the very image, the more terrifying for being so stylized, of mankind's… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
