Grantland Rice Quotes

I play the game the right way.

I can only tell you that I am a clean athlete and an honest person.

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

Virtue is its own reward.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.