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 The above quotation, from Grantland Rice’s 1908 poem “Alumnus Football,” has resonated with me for years. It is the go-to inscription when I sign stuff like graduation cards (that have checks in them, of course …) or when I want to give advice to young people starting out in this big, bad world.