Vince Lombardi Quotes

1913-1970, American Football Coach
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“Run for daylight.”
Risk
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
Fatigue
“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
Habit
“Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.”
Desire
“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
Winners and Winning
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
Work
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
Commitment
“Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.”
Practice
“If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.”
Enthusiasm
“The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.”
Attitude
“You've got to be in top physical condition. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
Fatigue
“A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.”
Football
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
Teams and Teamwork
“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing -- the result.”
Results
“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”
Teams and Teamwork
“If you can accept losing you can't win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.”
Winners and Winning
“If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.”
Excellence
“Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things-blocking and tackling.”
Football
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
Cooperation
“Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.”
Coaches and Coaching
“Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
Football
“All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.”
Winners and Winning
“Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
Teams and Teamwork
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”
Commitment
“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
Commitment
“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”
Participation
“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.”
Teams and Teamwork
“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”
Will and Will Power