Grantland Rice, “Alumunus Football,” Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)

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.

• Grantland Rice, “Alumunus Football,” Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)