“(Lombardi) told me once, ‘I wish to hell I’d never said the damned thing. I meant the effort . . . I meant having a goal . . . I sure as hell didn’t mean for people to crush human values and morality’.
I said, ‘Don’t you believe it?’
He said, ‘What I believe is, if you go out on a football field Sunday, or any other endeavor in life, and you leave every fiber of what you have on that field, when the game finally ends, then you've won, and to me that tells a lot more than the final score. And I never made that clear.’
Jerry Izenberg wrote: