Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
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.
- Vince Lombardi
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline
when you're a winner, when you're number one.
What you've got to have is faith and discipline
when you're not yet a winner.
- Vince Lombardi
Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all 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. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes
in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
It looks like we're up chocolate creek without a Popsicle stick!
- the movie Shrek 2 (2004)
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
It's cookies, he smells like cookies,
and the smell gets stronger when he's in heat.
- the movie Michael
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Love is like an hourglass,
with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
- Jules Renard
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60.
They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
When life is like a slippery downhill slope,
go skiing and scream Whee... all the way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a sewer...
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Chanting OM is sort of like MOOing backward.
- Anonymous
Procrastination is like a credit card:
it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
- Christopher Parker
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When I hear a man preach,
I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
- Abraham Lincoln
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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