Run To Daylight

The late Vince Lombardi — the great football coach — was a devout Churchman and a dedicated family man. He also was a man of honesty and integrity who pursued excellence and stood for one hundred per cent effort at a time when these virtues not only were being ignored by many, but ridiculed. As some of you know, Vince Lombardi wrote a book entitled “Run To Daylight.” The book is about football and probably is of little interest unless you like football. But in it there is a chapter on “running backs” that contains a lesson that can be applied to everyone. It describes how football players learn all the plays, and then practice them over and over again until everything becomes practically automatic. And when game-time arrives, they have to remember all the numbers, and all the signals, and all the advice, and all the coaching. But as the running-back tucks the football under his arm and begins to run, he has time…