Vince Lombardi Quotes - Page 4

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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.

If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.

When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God - and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.

You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.

Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.

If you get into the endzone, act as if you've been there before.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.