Vince Lombardi Quotes - Page 2

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

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

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Champions make their own luck.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.

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

I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

One's desire, not ability, determines success.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.