Vince Lombardi

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

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

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.

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

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

When you know better, you do better.

Stay with me,’ he said, ‘until the sun goes out, the seas are parched, and the wind draws its last breath.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.

If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . And since the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God . . . then unless the Father, Son and Spirit are three distinct Nothings, they must be three distinct Substances, and consequently three distinct Gods.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing –a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.