The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for… — 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… — 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… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes… — 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… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers,… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling… — 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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