Vince Lombardi

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

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.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

I do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.

Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.