Grantland Rice

“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.”

“Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again.”

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”

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

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”

“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”

“The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose.”

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

“How you play the game is for college boys. When you're a pro, it's winning that counts.”

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

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

“There are two things you can always count on in this world: the wrath of a woman scorned and a 3-putt.”