Famous Vince Lombardi quotes

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence.
- Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
- Vince Lombardi

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
- Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
- Vince Lombardi

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

Once you LEARN to quit, it becomes a HABIT.
- Vince Lombardi

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

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

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi

It's not whether you get knocked down; It's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

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.
- Vince Lombardi

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

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.
- Vince Lombardi

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

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

I’m not afraid to die – it’s just that I had so much left to do in this world.
- Vince Lombardi

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.
- Vince Lombardi

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something good in men that really yearns for discipline.
- Vince Lombardi

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
- Vince Lombardi

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

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

A team that thinks it’s going to lose is going to lose.
- Vince Lombardi

If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.
- Vince Lombardi

Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- Vince Lombardi

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.
- Vince Lombardi

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
- Vince Lombardi

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.
- Vince Lombardi

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

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization…
- Vince Lombardi

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

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

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity – having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character. Vince Lombardi
- Vince Lombardi

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

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
- Vince Lombardi

God, family and the Green Bay Packers — in that order.
- Vince Lombardi

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 AI will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
- Vince Lombardi

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.
- Vince Lombardi

There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.
- Vince Lombardi

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

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