Vince Lombardi

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have each day there’s a new encounter, each week is a new challenge.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?… What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

The price of greatness is responsibility.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you?

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.