Vince Lombardi Quotes

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.

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

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

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

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.

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.

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

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

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

Mental toughness is essential to success.

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

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.

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.

Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

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

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.

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.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

Gentleman, this is a football.

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.

There is no substitute for work.

Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.

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

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.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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