Vince Lombardi

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.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

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

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity’s mind and were willing to reveal it.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Learn to say “I don’t know.” If used when appropriate, it will be often.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.