Quotes About Vince Lombardi

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.

Joe Theismann

#5. Perfection is not attainable," he used to say, quoting Vince Lombardi. "But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.

Kathryn Perez

#6. 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

#7. I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

Vince Lombardi

#8. The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

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#9. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind.

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#10. Winning is not everything it is the only thing

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#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

Vince Lombardi

#14. True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

Vince Lombardi

#15. A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.

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#16. 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.

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#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Vince Lombardi

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

Vince Lombardi

#24. t is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

#25. Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win

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#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

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#30. Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.

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#31. 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.

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#32. I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.

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#33. 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.

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#34. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

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#35. If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

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#36. 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

#37. There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

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#38. 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.

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#39. Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.

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#40. Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

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#41. 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.

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#42. 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.

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

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#44. Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

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#45. The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.

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#46. Gentleman, this is a football.

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#47. It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

#48. 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.

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#49. You defeat defeatism with confidence.

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#50. I have discovered in my life that it is more challenging to build than to maintain.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

#51. Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

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

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#53. If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

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#54. The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

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#55. 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.

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#56. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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#57. Leaders aren't born they are made.

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#58. 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

#59. It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

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#60. We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.

Vince Lombardi

#61. 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.

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#62. Leaders are made, they are not born

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#63. There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

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#64. 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.

#65. The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

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#66. A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

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#67. When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

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#68. 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.

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#69. It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win ...

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#70. Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was ... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

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#71. Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

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#72. If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

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#73. 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.

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#74. A man is known by the company he owns.

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

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#76. Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

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#77. Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

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#78. 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.

Vince Lombardi

#79. Lombardi works you so hard," Knafelc once said, "that when he tells you to go to hell, you look forward to the trip.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

#80. Champions make their own luck.

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#81. Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.

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#82. 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.

Vince Lombardi

#83. Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

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#84. 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

#85. Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.

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#86. 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

#87. Gentlemen, this is the football.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

#88. Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi

#89. The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

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#90. Winning is not the most important thing; it's everything.

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#91. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

#92. The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win.

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#93. Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

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#94. We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

Vince Lombardi

#95. They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them ... you show them the reasons.

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

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#97. 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

#98. The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

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#99. One's desire, not ability, determines success.

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#100. 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