Best 27 quotes of Grantland Rice on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I am the servant of my score.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A wise man makes his own decisions. An ignorant man follows public opinion.

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

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

The flame of the inn is dim tonight, Too many vacant chairs. The sun has lost too much of its light, Too many songs have taken flight, Too many ghosts on the stairs. Charon, here's to you as man against man, I wish I could pick 'em the way you can!