Vince Lombardi Quotes about Football

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

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.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

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.

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

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

Gentlemen, this is the football.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.