Top 25 Grantland Rice Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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

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Grantland Rice Quote: “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”

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

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Failure isn’t so bad if it doesn’t attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn’t go to the head.”

3. “Failure isn’t so bad if it doesn’t attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn’t go to the head.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You’ll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.”

4. “You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You’ll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing – a basically simple maneuver – it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.”

5. “Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing – a basically simple maneuver – it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.”

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

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

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

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Grantland Rice Quote: “I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.”

8. “I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.”

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

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.”

10. “Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “It’s not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.”

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

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.”

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

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Grantland Rice Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.”

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

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent’s.”

16. “Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent’s.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.”

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

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.”

19. “Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.”

20. “There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.”

21. “Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “There is no type of miracle that can’t happen at least once in golf.”

22. “There is no type of miracle that can’t happen at least once in golf.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.”

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

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Grantland Rice Quote: “This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.”

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

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Grantland Rice Quote: “I am the servant of my score.”

25. “I am the servant of my score.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “Few learn golf in a lifetime.”

27. “Few learn golf in a lifetime.”

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Grantland Rice Quote: “One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.”

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

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