As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later
Alistair CookeIt is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
Alistair CookeNo myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
Alistair CookeLiberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.
Alistair Cooke