Quotes By Vince Lombardi

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.

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

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

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

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

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

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

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

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

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

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

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

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

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.

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.

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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

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

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

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.

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

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.

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

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Success demands singleness of purpose.