Vince Lombardi Quotes

Its not whether you got knocked down, its whether you get back up.

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.

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 difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.

its not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up...........

We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.

It was the first time, too, that I truly realized that a ball club is made up of as many different individuals as there are positions on it, that some need a whip and others a pat on the back, and others are better off when they are ignored, and that there are limitations imposed by the difference in physical ability and mentality. The amount that can be consumed and executed by a team is controlled by the weakest man on it, and while others can give him physical help, he has to do his own thinking.

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

He's a great man on tips, too, those signs an offensive man will give you now and then that indicate what he is going to do. Some of those linemen will put more weight on the front hand if they are going to drive off the ball and they will sit back a little if they are going to pass block.

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.

They call it coaching, but it is teaching. You do not just tell them it is so, but you show them the reasons why it is so and you repeat and repeat until they are convinced, until they know.

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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Leaders aren't born; they are made. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal which is worthwhile.