You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.
Source: In The Golfer's Book of Wisdom, ed. by Criswell Freeman, 1995.
-- Grantland Rice, (Nov 1 1880-1954), US sports columnist, author; He was for many years one of the leading sports authorities; wrote for the NY Herald Tribune, 1914-30 and Colliers, 1925-37.