Vince Lombardi Quotes

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

You defeat defeatism with confidence.

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.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

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

In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

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

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

Leaders are not born, they're made.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

Leaders are made, they are not born

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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

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

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

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.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

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

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

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

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.

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Inches make champions.

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

Inches make a champion.

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

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

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

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

A man is known by the company he owns.

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

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.

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

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

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price

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

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

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

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

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.

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.