Grantland Rice Quotes

• 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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• For 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.

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

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• Few learn golf in a lifetime.

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

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

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• 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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Birth:	1st November, 1880
Death:	13th July, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Henry Grantland Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA. He was an American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio. He graduated with a BA degree in classics in 1901. He wrote several sportbooks include: Base-ball ballads, The Winning Shot(with Jerome Travers), The Duffer's Handbook of Golf, and How to Play Golf.

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