“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!” – 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! - 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!”

– Grantland Rice

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  1. All wars are planned by old men in ante rooms apart,
    Who plan for greater armament and mark the battle chart,
    But where their sightless eyes stare out
    Beyond Life’s vanished joys,
    I notice nearly all the dead are hardly more than boys.

    Grantland Rice
    New York Rainbow Divison World War I

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  4. Update for our time:

    “For when the One Great Scorer
    Comes to mark when you are dead,
    He writes not that you won or lost,
    But if you beat the spread.”

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  5. I first came upon this quote while reading the late great Hunter S. Thompson. I have used it in conversations with my children and hopefully they are as moved by it as I was both in the initial reading years ago and presently.

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