Vince Lombardi Quotes

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

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

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

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.

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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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.

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

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

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

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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.

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.

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Inches make a champion.