Vince Lombardi

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

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.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Every old poem is sacred.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.