Best Quotes by Grantland Rice (Top 10)

  1. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
  2. When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
  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.
  4. 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.
  5. Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
  6. 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. Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
  8. 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.
  9. All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.
  10. Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.