More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
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