Top 240 Quotes & Sayings by Vince Lombardi - Page 2

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

Nobody wants to give up good players.

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.

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

There is no substitute for work.

One's desire, not ability, determines success.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

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.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

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.

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

Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

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

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

Praise in public; criticize in private.

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

Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win

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

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

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.

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.

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

Mental toughness is essential to success.

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.

The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.

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

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

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

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.

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

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

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

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

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.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

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

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.

The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

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.

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.

Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.

The Winner is always part of the answer. The Loser is always part of the problem. The Winner always has a program. The Loser always has an excuse. The Winner says, "Let me do it for you." The Loser says, "That's not my job." The Winner sees an answer for every problem. The Loser sees a problem for every answer. The Winner sees a green near every sand trap The Loser sees two or three sand traps near every green. The Winner says, "It may be difficult but it's possible." The Loser says, "It might be possible but it's too difficult." Be a Winner.

If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.

I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

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

Champions make their own luck.