You not only lose because Thomas Jefferson trumps John Wayne, but because you falsely attributed the quote to Wayne. “Winning is everything, it’s the only thing.” doesn’t belong to Wayne, and it doesn’t belong to Vince Lombardi although many mistakenly believe it does. It’s Henry Russel Sanders from UCLA who coined it.
I like to think of “winning isn’t everything...” as a John Wayne quote—from “Trouble Along the Way” (1953). Red Sanders may have said it first, but I would never quote a UCLA ‘Ruin.