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.

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

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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

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 vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Be an opener of doors.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

O imitators, you slavish herd!