All Quotes by Vince Lombardi
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
“It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.”
“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.”
“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”
“Battles are won in the hearts of men.”
“The only place”
“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." ”
“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.”
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
“It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
“Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.”
“At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.”
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
“Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.”
“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
“There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.”
“Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence”
“It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.”
“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”
“You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.”
“I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.”
“The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.”
“I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.”
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
“Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?”
“Success demands singleness of purpose.”
“We run to win, not just to be in the race.”
“A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.”
“I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?”
“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.”
“A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.”
“The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.”
“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
“Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.”
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”
“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”
“If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”
“We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”
“Battles are won in the hearts of men.”
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
“Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
“If you can accept losing, you can't win.”
“Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”
“I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.”
“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”
“Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.”
“They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.”
“Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.”
“Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.”
“Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.”
“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”
“Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.”
“There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.”
“We didn't lose the game, we just ran out of time.”
“If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.”
“A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.”
“Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.”
“If you can bite hard you can growl just as hard.”
“Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.”
“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
“I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.”
“We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.”
“Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.”
“Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.”
“Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.”
“Leadership rests not only upon ability but upon commitment and upon loyalty and upon pride and upon followers...Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.”
“If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.”
“The will to win is the only thing.”
“Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.”
“Nobody wants to give up good players.”
“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
“Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.”
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”