Grantland Rice

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Golf gives you an insight into human nature your own as well as your opponents.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

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

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