Vince Lombardi Quotes about Sports

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

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.

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

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.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

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.

Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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.

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

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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

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

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

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.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

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.