Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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.

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

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the do’er, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Understanding is a two-way street.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.