A Quote by Vince Lombardi

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

Vince Lombardi

Quote Topics

Blocking Blocking And Tackling Else Everything Everything Else Football Mythology Tackling

Quote Author

Vince Lombardi
American - Coach
June 11, 1913 - September 3, 1970

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Knute Rockne

Things never change in football, it's still blocking and tackling and execution, and having an experienced quarterback who is patient enough to take what the defense gives him.

George Blanda

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

Vince Lombardi

This is still a lot of blocking and tackling. I'm not seeing the kind of vision thing associated with a frothy market.

Jermichael Finley

I do like to play and pass the ball. But first and foremost I see myself as a defender: blocking, tackling, heading.

Harry Maguire

When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.

James Carville

When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.

Naveen Jain

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Joseph Campbell

The era of special interests blocking progress on every issue from access to health care to the cost of prescription drugs to tackling climate change has to end.

Sara Gideon

I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

I used to like Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology. All mythology!

Kendrick Sampson

At Liverpool, I used to read the match day programme, and you'd read an interview with a lad from the youth team. They'd ask age, heroes, strong points, etc. He'd reply, 'Shooting and tackling.' I can't get into my head that football development would educate tackling as a quality, something to learn, to teach, a characteristic of your play.

Xabi Alonso

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

Chris Gardner

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Steve Sabol

A Quote by Vince Lombardi

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors