Vince lombardi quotes

We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.

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.

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

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.

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

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

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

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

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

One's desire, not ability, determines success.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

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

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

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

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.

They do not truly love who do not show their love.

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.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.

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.

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

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.'

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

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

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

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

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

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

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

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

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

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

Mental toughness is essential to success.

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.

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose.

There is no substitute for work.

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

When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God - and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.

Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

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

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.

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.

Praise in public; criticize in private.

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.

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

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

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.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

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.

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

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

The Winner is always part of the answer. The Loser is always part of the problem. The Winner always has a program. The Loser always has an excuse. The Winner says, "Let me do it for you." The Loser says, "That's not my job." The Winner sees an answer for every problem. The Loser sees a problem for every answer. The Winner sees a green near every sand trap The Loser sees two or three sand traps near every green. The Winner says, "It may be difficult but it's possible." The Loser says, "It might be possible but it's too difficult." Be a Winner.

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 difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

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

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

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

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

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

If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.

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.

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

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

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

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.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

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.

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.

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

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

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

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.

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

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

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

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

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

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

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

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.

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

Success demands singleness of purpose.

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

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

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

If you can accept losing, you can't 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.

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

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

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

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

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

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

You defeat defeatism with confidence.

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.

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

Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge.

Champions make their own luck.

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.

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

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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

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

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

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.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

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

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

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.