Vince Lombardi Quotes

To the stars through thorns.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Over the past six years I've had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

We will persevere, come life or death.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.