Vince Lombardi Quotes

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.

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

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.

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

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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

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.

Inches make a champion.

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

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.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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.

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

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.

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

The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.

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.

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

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

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

They may not love you at the time, but they will later.

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

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

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

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

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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.

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

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

To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.

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'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

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

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

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

If you get into the endzone, act as if you've been there before.

Inches make champions.

The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.