"In golf, humiliations are the essence of the…" — Alistair Cooke
"In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game."
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55 Quotes by Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke has 55 quotes on this site.
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much…
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and…
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human…
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I…
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still…
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It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for…
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in…
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
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