Grantland Rice Quotes, Thoughts and images

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

I am the servant of my score.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.