Vince Lombardi Quotes

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.

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

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.

Success is based upon a spiritual quality, a power to inspire others.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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 isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

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

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

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

Run for daylight.

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

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

Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

If you can accept losing you can't win.

If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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.

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

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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

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

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

Inches make champions.

All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means.

.. you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

You've got to be in top physical condition. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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.

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.

If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

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.

The man at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.

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

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

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

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.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

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

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.

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

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back.

That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

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.

Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

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