46 Quotes by Grantland Rice

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

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

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 the big one.

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, 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.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

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 lift in culture, brains, and personality.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.