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Golf Quotes by Alistair Cooke
- Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
- The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
- 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…
- In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
- There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book…
- I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to…
- So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the…
- 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…
- The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
- The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a…
- I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
- They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.
- The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf -…
- [Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a…
- 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 greater…
- It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked…
- Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth'…
- Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and…
- 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…
- For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr…
- When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies…
More Golf Quotes
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger. — Lance Armstrong
- Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. — Franklin P. Adams
- Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. — Dave Barry
- For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. — Dave Barry
- Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. — Jack Benny
- I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life. — Yogi Berra
- I didn't know much about golf growing up. — Yogi Berra
- You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football… — Jello Biafra
- Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop
- I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes… — Lewis Black
- If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and… — Lewis Black