Coach Lombardi Quotes & Sayings

Since I decided to buy an island and move there with my favorite volleyball," Deacon shot back, watched his friend's lips twitch, ignored it, and moved into the room, shrugging off his coat and throwing it on the bed. — Kristen Ashley

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate - it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning. — Arnold Schoenberg

A thousand curses on you and those who spawned you! You've plagued me long enough, you stygian fiend! I don't know what sulfurous pit you've crawled out of, but I mean to return you to it! I'll send you on a voyage down the river Styx if it's the last thing I do!" Twain directed his attention back to the phone. "No, I wasn't talking to you, but most of what I said still applies. — Arthur Daigle

I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.' — Vince Lombardi

Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead? — Audrey Niffenegger

One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it. People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or "Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history. — Michael Emerson

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
— Louise Erdrich

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best. — Bart Starr

You don't make art, you find it — Pablo Picasso

Do you have any idea who you've been dealing with?"
"This is big-time! Interstate! Federal! You're not in a precinct, are you?"
"This goes way beyond you! This goes deep!"
"We've been on to this guy for a long time, Shaka."
"The Virginia Mafia! Nobody fucks with them!"
"We've got him in a room down the hall
this guy gave up his own sister! You're lucky you got out alive! — Edward Conlon

This is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition. — Philip K. Dick

Bella, we're not having this discussion anymore. I refuse to damn you to an eternity of night and that's the end of it.-Edward Cullen — Stephanie Meyer

A Beggar Just Begs,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 6, 2016 — Petra Hermans

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time. — Judith Orloff

But the knowledge isn't any good without the infrastructure. — M.R. Carey

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. — Umberto Eco

The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head. — Ivan Panin

Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap. — Jerry Kramer

I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true. — Mike Sherman

Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one. — Herb Adderley