Grantland Rice Golf 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.

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.

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

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

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

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

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

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