[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.
Alistair CookePeople in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
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 CookeFor many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.
Alistair Cooke