No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
Alistair CookeHollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Alistair CookeWhen that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time."
Alistair Cooke