Top 240 Quotes & Sayings by Vince Lombardi - Page 4

A man is known by the company he owns.

Inches make champions.

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.

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

Gentlemen, this is the football.

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

Inches make a champion.

Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

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.

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

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

To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.

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

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

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.

winning is not everything it is the only thing

The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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.

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.

Leaders are made, they are not born

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.

Gentleman, this is a football.

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price

Leaders are not born, they're made.

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.

Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.

Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.

In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

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

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.

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

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.