Quotes from Grantland Rice

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

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

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

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

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

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

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

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.

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

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

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

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

When the great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they were known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley, and Layden.

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

Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

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

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

For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost - But HOW you played the Game. "Alumnus Football

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

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