Vince Lombardi famous quotes

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
-- Vince Lombardi

#Sports #Athlete #Winning

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.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Perseverance

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Business

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Basketball

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.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Athlete #Winning #Important

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Believe #Heart #Emotional

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Encouraging #Cheer

Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win
-- Vince Lombardi

#Winning #Will To Win

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Coward

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.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Teamwork

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Preparedness #Builder

When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God - and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Faith #Hands #Perfect

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Leadership

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Jobs #Goal #Excuse

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
-- Vince Lombardi

#Leadership #Spiritual #Inspire

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Family

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Perfection #Excellence #Impossible

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Success #Leadership #Giving

Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Lasts #Surrender #Miscellaneous

If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Practice #Games #Cheat

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Love #Inspirational #Life

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Running

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Settling

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Motivational Sports

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sports

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Knowing #Perfect

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.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Heart #Guy #Fields

There is no substitute for work.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Success #Sacrifice #Substitutes

Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Success #Commitment #Sacrifice

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Leadership #Heart #Men

Mental toughness is essential to success.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Congratulations #Essentials #Mental Toughness

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Sports #Thinking #Winner

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Football #Attitude #Games

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Teaching #Coaching #Excellence

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Teamwork #Mean #Hard Work

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Humility #Sacrifice #Greatness

Every time a player goes out 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. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. 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.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Smart #Athlete #Heart

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Winning #Dry #Achieve

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Commitment #People #Desire

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Basketball #Games #Coaching

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Commitment #Heart #World

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?
-- Vince Lombardi

#Believe #Commitment #Heart

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Volleyball #Leader #Use

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Leadership #Character #Sacrifice

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Meaningful #Creating #Joy

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Cheer #Dedication

The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspiration #Men #Thinking

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Leader #Groups

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price
-- Vince Lombardi

#Jobs #Pay #Achieve

A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Team #Thinking #Winning

I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Success #Thinking #Pay

Inches make champions.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Champion #Championship #Inches

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Loyalty #Inspiration #Commitment

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Success #Sports #Football

I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Loyalty #Teamwork #Player

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline
-- Vince Lombardi

#Running #Volleyball #Heart

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Leadership #Character #Use

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Jobs #Self #Excellence

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.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Leadership #Sports

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Leadership #Sports #Jobs

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.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Leadership

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational Sports #Jobs

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Soccer #Gratitude

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Failure

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.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Teamwork #Sports #Nfl

If you can accept losing, you can't win.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Football #Winning

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Leadership #Confidence

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Teamwork #Volleyball

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Positive #Graduation

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Football #Motivational Sports #Block

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Football #Motivational Sports #School

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sports

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Sarcastic #Sports #Football

Success demands singleness of purpose.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Life #Inspiring #Success

Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Memories #Winning

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Success

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...
-- Vince Lombardi

#Dance #Sports #Football

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Dance #Mind #Body

The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable
-- Vince Lombardi

#Memories #Inspiration #Overcoming

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Teamwork #Football

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Failing #Glorious

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Determination #Believe

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Greatness #Perfect #Achieve

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Football #Respect #Perseverance

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all 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. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Determination

You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Coward #Prime #Fatigue

Praise in public; criticize in private.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Praise #Criticize

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Motivational #Men

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational #Success #Softball

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Success #Football

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Leadership #Football

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Leadership #Teamwork #Oneness

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Motivational #Sports #Giving Up

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Basketball #Coaching #Opponents

The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
-- Vince Lombardi

#Teamwork #Oneness #Decision