The Ultimate Collection of Inspirational Vince Lombardi Quotes

### Discover the Wisdom of Vince Lombardi Vince Lombardi, one of the most iconic figures in sports history, left behind a legacy of powerful and motivational quotes that continue to inspire people worldwide. This collection brings together his most memorable sayings that emphasize perseverance, teamwork, discipline, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. ### Why Vince Lombardi's Words Still Matter Whether you're an athlete, a leader, or someone striving for personal growth, Lombardi's insights offer timeless guidance. From his famous declaration that "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" to his emphasis on character and hard work, these quotes serve as a beacon for anyone aiming to overcome challenges and achieve greatness. ### Embrace the Spirit of Champions Dive into this curated selection of Vince Lombardi quotes and let his words fuel your motivation. Learn how commitment, enthusiasm, and resilience can transform your approach to life and work. This is more than just a collection of quotes—it's a roadmap to success inspired by one of the greatest coaches of all time.

Wisdom from the Masters

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle — victorious."

- Vince Lombardi

Achievement

"Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else."

- Vince Lombardi

Success

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

- Vince Lombardi

Self-improvement

"If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough."

- Vince Lombardi

Learning from Mistakes

"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."

- Vince Lombardi

Belief in Self

"If you can accept losing, you can’t win. If you can walk, you can run."

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation

"No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all."

- Vince Lombardi

Leadership

"You’ve got to play with your heart—with every fiber of your body."

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation

"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."

- Vince Lombardi

Determination

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

- Vince Lombardi

Achievement

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

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community."

- Vince Lombardi

Leadership

"Winning is a habit. Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs. Watch your beliefs, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character."

- Vince Lombardi

Success

"The objective is to win—fairly, squarely, decently. Win by the rules, but still, win."

- Vince Lombardi

Integrity

"Everyone has the will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win."

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation

"There's only one way to succeed at anything and that is to give everything."

- Vince Lombardi

Determination

"The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there."

- Vince Lombardi

Success

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work."

- Vince Lombardi Jr.

Hard Work

"Winning isn’t everything, but it’s the only thing. In our business there is no second place; you’re either first, or last."

- Vince Lombardi

Ambition

"Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect."

- Vince Lombardi

Hard Work

"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off of the goal."

- Vince Lombardi

Focus

"The successful man is himself. To be successful you've got to be honest with yourself."

- Vince Lombardi

Integrity

"Mental toughness is essential to success."

- Vince Lombardi

Determination

"Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success."

- Vince Lombardi

Determination

"Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will."

- Vince Lombardi

Integrity

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing."

- Vince Lombardi

Success

"Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have each day there’s a new encounter, each week is a new challenge."

- Vince Lombardi

Achievement

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

- Vince Lombardi

Leadership

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

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"Success demands singleness of purpose."

- Vince Lombardi

Focus

"We run to win, not just to be in the race."

- Vince Lombardi

Ambition

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

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

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

- Vince Lombardi

Optimism

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

Achievement

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

- Vince Lombardi

Perseverance

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

- Marv Levy

Hard Work

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

- Vince Lombardi

Personal Growth

"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall."

- Vince Lombardi

Resilience

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

- Vince Lombardi

Self-confidence

"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."

- Vince Lombardi

Faith

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

- Vince Lombardi

Learning

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

Hard Work

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."

- Vince Lombardi

Success

"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."

- Vince Lombardi

Resilience

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

- Vince Lombardi

Achievement

"The will to win is the only thing."

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation

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

- Vince Lombardi

Drive

"The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination."

- Vince Lombardi

Determination

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

- Vince Lombardi

Perseverance

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

- Vince Lombardi

Resilience

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

- Vince Lombardi

Determination

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit."

- Vince Lombardi

Persistence

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

- Vince Lombardi

Ambition

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

Well-being

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

- Vince Lombardi

Resilience

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

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

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

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation

"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

- Vince Lombardi

Persistence

"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."

- Vince Lombardi

Ambition

"If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner."

- Vince Lombardi

Persistence

"I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now."

- Vince Lombardi

Persistence

"Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body."

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation

"I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win."

- Vince Lombardi

Ambition

"Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same."

- Vince Lombardi

Personal Growth

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

- Vince Lombardi

Persistence

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."

- Vince Lombardi

Persistence

"Battles are won in the hearts of men."

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation

"Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love."

- Vince Lombardi

Courage

"You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time."

- Vince Lombardi

Hard Work

"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures."

- Vince Lombardi

Determination

"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."

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?"

- Vince Lombardi

Belief in Self

"The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert."

- Vince Lombardi

Leadership

"Once you have established the goals you want and the price you’re willing to pay, you can ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure and the temporary failures."

- Vince Lombardi

Determination

"When you’ve got the momentum in a football game, that is a time to keep going and get it into the end zone."

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation

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

- Vince Lombardi

Mindfulness

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing — the result."

- Vince Lombardi

Responsibility

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result."

- Vince Lombardi

Responsibility

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

- Vince Lombardi

Philosophy

"I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world."

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation

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

- Vince Lombardi

Adversity

"There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline."

- Vince Lombardi

Self-improvement

"If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm."

- Vince Lombardi

Environment

"A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders."

- Vince Lombardi

Self-improvement

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

- Vince Lombardi

Facing Fears

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

- Vince Lombardi

Philosophy

"They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants."

- Vince Lombardi

Strength

"Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins."

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"I don’t have any black players, I don’t have any white players, I only have green players."

- Vince Lombardi

Respect

"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind."

- Vince Lombardi

Mindfulness

"God, family and the Green Bay Packers—in that order."

- Vince Lombardi

Balance

"At many moments in a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them."

- Vince Lombardi

Bravery

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

- Vince Lombardi

Education

"Nobody wants to give up good players."

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world."

- Vince Lombardi

Ambition

"I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?"

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation