Best 187 quotes of Vince Lombardi on MyQuotes

A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.

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.

A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

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

And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

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

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.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

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

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.

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

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.

Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.

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

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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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.

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

Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.

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

Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. 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.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

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

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

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

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.

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

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.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

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

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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