Vince Lombardi
46 quotes
Biography
Vincent Thomas Lombardi was an American professional football coach and executive in the National Football League (NFL). Lombardi is considered by many to be among the greatest coaches and leaders in American sports.
"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."
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
"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."
"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."
"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price well have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."
"You don't do it right once in a while; you do it right every time."
"A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity."
"If you can bite hard you can growl just as hard."
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."
"We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies."
"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."
"Leadership rests not only upon ability but upon commitment and upon loyalty and upon pride and upon followers...Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader."
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."
"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
"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."
"Success demands singleness of purpose."
"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."