Grantland Rice Quotes

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

I am the servant of my score. — Grantland Rice

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

Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get. — Holly Black

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

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

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

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

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. — 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. — Grantland Rice

Happiness is boring. — Chris Gilmore

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

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

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

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. — Carl Schurz

How good the past can look from a rest stop in a bitter future! — Kaimana Wolff

Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form. — Beth Moore

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters. — William S. Burroughs

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. — Christian Nestell Bovee

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

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. — Grantland Rice

Oh." His hips bucked faintly with the moan. "I've got so much for you. So much. I wanna see it slip down your pretty chin when I fill that mouth up. — Cara McKenna

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

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

If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible. — Bernard Baruch

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun. — Maud Hart Lovelace

How sociable the garden was.
We ate and talked in given light.
The children put their toys to grass
All the warm wakeful August night. — Thom Gunn

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

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

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning. — Grantland Rice

HUMANS THINK THAT NATURE GIVES SERVICE TO HIM SO IT IS SERVANT OF HIS, BUT HE DOES'NT UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE CHILDREN'S OF NATURE. — Omkar Patil

you are meant to play the ball as it lies. — Grantland Rice