Top 100 Lombardi's Quotes
#1. Asked about Lombardi's daring decision to go for the touchdown, Landry, the decade's defensive genius, seemed stunned by it. "I can't believe that call, the sneak," he said. "It wasn't a good call, but now it's a great call.
Edward Gruver
#2. You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.
George Halas
#3. It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win ...
Vince Lombardi
#4. Lombardi: [to his assistant] Could you get us some writing paper, please.
Eli: A lot of it. A whole lot of it.
Book Of Eli Movie
#5. To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.
Vince Lombardi
#6. When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.
Vince Lombardi
#7. A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi
#8. The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.
Vince Lombardi
#9. 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.
Vince Lombardi Jr.
#10. There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
Vince Lombardi
#12. 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
#13. We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
Vince Lombardi
#14. It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
Vince Lombardi
#15. 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
#16. Nothing drives me more than to, hopefully, be able to hand (Steelers chairman Dan Rooney) that fifth (Vince Lombardi) trophy. If I can do that, then I would think, that when he brought me here, I finally accomplished what he wanted me to do.
Bill Cowher
#17. When you think about it, what's the difference between Bobby Knight and Vince Lombardi? Why is one guy a god, and the other guy is regarded as a crazy man?
Brian Dennehy
#20. 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
#21. The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Vince Lombardi
#22. If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
Vince Lombardi
#23. The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
Vince Lombardi
#24. Sometimes we get discouraged and turn to inspirational writing, like stuff from Vince Lombardi: "Quitters never win and winners never quit." Bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time. Most people quit. They just don't quit successfully.
Anonymous
#26. I have discovered in my life that it is more challenging to build than to maintain.
Vince Lombardi Jr.
#27. 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
#28. 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.
Vince Lombardi
#29. I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
Vince Lombardi
#30. A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose.
Vince Lombardi
#31. Lombardi: There's a whole series of beautiful Mozart and Wagner records, in still very pristine condition. But, never a Bible. Until now. May I ask what condition it's in?
Eli: It's beat up. But it will do the job.
Book Of Eli Movie
#32. The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.
Vincent Lombardi
#33. 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
#34. I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Vince Lombardi
#35. In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.
Vince Lombardi
#36. There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
#37. It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.
Aaron Rodgers
#38. 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
#39. I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.
Vince Lombardi
#40. Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was ... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
#41. First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.
Dean Lombardi
#42. Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
Vince Lombardi
#44. You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.
Vince Lombardi
#45. Winning is not the most important thing; it's everything.
Vince Lombardi
#46. I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.
Dean Lombardi
#49. 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
#50. If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.
Vince Lombardi
#51. Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
Vince Lombardi
#52. Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.
Vince Lombardi
#53. Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.
Vince Lombardi
#54. In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.
Vince Lombardi
#55. Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win
Vince Lombardi
#56. I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.
Mike Sherman
#57. t is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
Vince Lombardi Jr.
#58. If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.
Vince Lombardi
#59. Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi
#60. If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.
Vince Lombardi
#61. 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
#62. The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi
#63. 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
#64. My vision is that I'm living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.
Chuck Pagano
#65. 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.
Vince Lombardi
#66. 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.
Vince Lombardi
#67. A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.
Vince Lombardi
#68. True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
Vince Lombardi
#69. When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
Vince Lombardi
#70. And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.
Vince Lombardi
#71. 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
#74. The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Vince Lombardi
#75. I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'
Vince Lombardi
#76. 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
#77. I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.
Vince Lombardi
#78. 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
#79. It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Vince Lombardi Jr.
#81. The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
Vince Lombardi
#82. Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
#83. 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
#84. When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.
Vince Lombardi
#85. To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.
Vince Lombardi
#86. At the end of each year I make a list of my mistakes and it's pretty friggin long.
Dean Lombardi
#87. Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
Vince Lombardi
#88. Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
Vince Lombardi
#91. There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
Vince Lombardi
#92. I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.
Vince Lombardi
#93. If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
Vince Lombardi
#94. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
#95. We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes ... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.
Vince Lombardi
#96. I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.
Vince Lombardi
#97. I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games.
Ray Nitschke
#98. 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
#99. Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.
Vince Lombardi
#100. The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
Vince Lombardi
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