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This quotation examines the core nature of Sports as articulated by Grantland Rice. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Sports provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Grantland Rice

Henry Grantland Rice was a sportswriter, columnist, and poet from Tennessee known as the "Dean of American Sports Writers". He published three books of poetry, and coined the famous phrase that it was not important whether you “won or lost, but how you played the game.” His writing was known for its elegance and published in newspapers around the country, and broadcast on the radio. He and his writing are among the reasons that the roaring 1920s in the United States are sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age of Sports".

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"Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor."

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