Vince Lombardi's Quotes

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

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.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

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

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.

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

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

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

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.

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.

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

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.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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.

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.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.