Grantland Rice Quotes

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• Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's. Gives
• Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. Camaraderie
• You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. Approach
• Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head. Any
• Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk. Across
• There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf. Golf
• There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf. Championship
• Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. Blunts
• Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head. All
• 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… All
• 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… Bag
• Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian… Any
• This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not. Golf
• 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… Big
• One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing. Attempt
• 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… Baseball
• It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell. Able
• 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,… Action
• Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son. Dream
• All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart. All

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