Vince Lombardi Quotes

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.

"I look across the field and there is one man in the bleachers. He is standing there watching us with his raincoat over his head. "Who's that guy?" I say to John Gordon. "Only a nut would stay out in a rain like this unless he's scouting. Find out who he is." I don't make a fetish of secrecy."

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.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

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

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

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.

The secret to winning every time is to score more points than the other team.

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.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

What success does to you. It is like a habit-forming drug that, in victory, saps your elation and, in defeat, deepens your despair. Once you have sampled it you are hooked, and now I lie in bed, not sleeping the sleep of the victor but wide awake, seeing the other people who are coming in next Sunday with the best defensive line in the league, with that great middle linebacker, that left defensive halfback who is as quick and agile as a cat and a quarterback who, although he is not as daring as Johnny Unitas or Y. A. Tittle or Bobby Layne, can kill you with his consistency.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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 not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. — - Vince Lombardi — —

"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."

Football is a game of inches and inches make the champion