People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

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 movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.