Vince Lombardi
American football coach of the Green Bay Packers, 1913-1970
32 quotes.
Quotes by Vince Lombardi
- Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win
- Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
- Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.
- 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.
- If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
- If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
- Individual commitment to a group effort, gentlemen, that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.
- Leaders aren't born they are made, and they are made like anything else, through hard work and that's the price we will have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.
- Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
- Our greatest glory here in the Packer organization was not in never falling, but in rising every time we fell.
- Perfection isn’t attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
- Praise in public; criticize in private.
- Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
- Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
- Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for the individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
- The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- 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.
- The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
- The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- 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.
- The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
- 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.
- We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
- 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.
- 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 don't do it right once in a while; you do it right every time.
- Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.
- Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.