Quotes by Grantland Rice

About Grantland Rice:

Henry Grantland Rice was 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.
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Depend 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 Rice

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Grantland Rice

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Grantland Rice

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Grantland Rice

Does 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

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

Grantland Rice

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

Grantland Rice

The flame of the inn is dim tonight, Too many vacant chairs. The sun has lost too much of its light, Too many songs have taken flight, Too many ghosts on the stairs. Charon, here's to you as man against man, I wish I could pick 'em the way you can!

Grantland Rice

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

Grantland Rice

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

Grantland Rice

Author Bio

  • NameGrantland Rice
  • DescriptionAmerican sportswriter
  • BornNovember 1, 1880
  • DiedJuly 13, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author