"There are many stars and a few super-stars……" — Grantland Rice
"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."
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28 Quotes by Grantland Rice
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Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
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Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness…
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You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own…
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Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.
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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across…
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There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.
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There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the…
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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…
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Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than…
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This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.
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