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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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I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I…
— Alan Alda
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I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
— Ben Hogan
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To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake…
— Alistair Cooke
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If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
— Herman Melville
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I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.
— Joe Teti
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I ran across a rattlesnake once in New Mexico, you know what I did with it, chopped its head off and we…
— Joe Teti
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The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
— Ross Macdonald
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I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
— Elizabeth Moon
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Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron.
— Claude Osteen
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I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.
— Ron Rash
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My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there,…
— Jim Fowler
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