For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.

About Grantland Rice

Henry Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954) was an American sportswriter and poet known as the "Dean of American Sports Writers". He coined the famous phrase that it was not important whether you “won or lost, but how you played the game.”

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