Grantland Rice Quotations

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

I am the servant of my score.

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.

There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.

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

Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

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.