"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
"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
"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