46 Quotes by 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.

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

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

Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.

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

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.

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

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

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.