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.
Grantland RiceIt's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.
Grantland RiceYou 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.
Grantland RiceYou are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.
Grantland RiceI 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 RiceChristy 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.
Grantland RiceThis is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.
Grantland RiceOne might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.
Grantland RiceLike 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.
Grantland RiceEighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.
Grantland RiceFailure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
Grantland RiceGolf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
Grantland RiceBecause 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 RiceDepend 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.
Grantland RiceDoes 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.
Grantland Rice