Grantland Rice
Grantland Rice
Henry Grantland Ricewas an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth1 November 1880
CountryUnited States of America
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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
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There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
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For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game.
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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost - but how you played the Game
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There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.
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Few learn golf in a lifetime.
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Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.
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I am the servant of my score.
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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.
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There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.
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Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.
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Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.
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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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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.