Quotes By Vince Lombardi

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

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.

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.

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.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

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.

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

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.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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.

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.

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

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