Vince Lombardi Quotes

We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes. Man can provide a full life for humanity – or he can destroy himself with the problems he has created. The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.…

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.

Praise in public; criticize in private.

Lombardi works you so hard,” Knafelc once said, “that when he tells you to go to hell, you look forward to the trip.

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

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 — —

When you get into the endzone, act like you've been there before.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

If you can bite hard you can growl just as hard.