Horseshoes Quotes
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
Quoted in Time, 31 July 1973. Usually attributed to Robinson, but slightly earlier evidence is found in the Guthrian (Guthrie County, Iowa), 26 Jan. 1970, which printed "Close only counts in horse shoes and grenades."
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.103
