September 3, 2022
QUOTE
Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
The Winner is always part of the answer.
The Loser is always part of the problem.
The Winner always has a program.
The Loser always has an excuse.
The Winner says, “Let me do it for you.”
The Loser says, “That’s not my job.”
The Winner sees an answer for every problem.
The Loser sees a problem for every answer.
The Winner sees a green near every sand trap
The Loser sees two or three sand traps near every green.
The Winner says, “It may be difficult but it’s possible.”
The Loser says, “It might be possible but it’s too difficult.”
Be a Winner.
--All from Coach Vince Lombardi
BIRTHDAYS
1875 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche
1910 – Kitty Carlisle, Singer, socialite, and game show panelist
1913 – Alan Ladd, Actor and producer
1923 – Glen Bell, Businessman, founded Taco Bell
1965 – Charlie Sheen, Actor and producer
IN MEMORY
1658 – Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician
1962 – E. E. Cummings, Poet and playwright
1970 – Vince Lombardi, Football player and coach
1999 – Emma Bailey, Auctioneer and author
IN ON THIS DAY
1658 – The death of Oliver Cromwell; Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England.
1935 – Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph.
1939 – The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war. This also marks the beginning of the Battle of the Atlantic.
1944 – Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
1976 – The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.