Jack Scalia Quotes

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

Life is like a building: it is impossible for anyone to achieve anything without a strong foundation, and the family is the most important foundation you can have.

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

I've always been the rock of my family.

If you're able to build something on a strong foundation, you're not going to be easily swayed.

Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

I've always had people around me who will love me for me, regardless of whether the football went well or if I'd have had to go down a different route. I've always felt that no matter where I've been or what I've been doing, I've always had that to fall back on, which is comforting.

I feel a lot stronger than I ever have done since I've had kids, because you have to be: you don't want them to see any weakness.

You may go through a lot of good times, you may go through a lot of bad times, you just have to try to prepare yourself as best as you can, and for me, that's just sticking with my family.

One thing I never worry about is money, because I have my health and my family, and I can always go back to work.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.