"It is a wonderful tribute to the game……" — Alistair Cooke
"It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year."
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Alistair Cooke
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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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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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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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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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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history…
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I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
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