Vince Lombardi

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

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

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

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

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

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it’s a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he’s chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.