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Alistair Cooke has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 golf as…
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series…
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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 comedy, implicit…
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you…
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or…
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It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people…
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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 the eroded…
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole…
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