Contributing Quote by Alistair Cooke

I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.

— Arnold Palmer

Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth

— Francoise Giroud

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

— Alistair Cooke

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

— Adrian Dunbar

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

— Gloria Naylor

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

— Salman Rushdie

I think sports stories are increasingly part of the diet of most important stories in the country.

— Will Cain

It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

— Katie Kitamura

We overhype everything. We create monumental myths. There are people who still believe that Brandi Chastain and the U.S. women's World Cup team pulled…

— Jason Whitlock

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

— John Boorman

“Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth”

— Françoise Giroud

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

— Bernard Malamud