American football coach (1913-1970)
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
attributed, Vince Lombardi's Winning Ways
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Vince Lombardi's Winning Ways
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, 101 Reasons to Love the Packers
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it--his mind, his body, his heart--what's life worth to him?
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, "Greatest Vince Lombardi Quotes", NFL.com
When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
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.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
My word will be final.
VINCE LOMBARDI
Milwaukee Journal, January 28, 1959
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
attributed, What It Takes to Be Number One
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide for Coaches and Leaders
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, What It Takes to Be Number One
Tackling is more natural than blocking. If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, The New Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Baseball's First Inning: A History of the National Pastime
Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.
VINCE LOMBARDI
What It Takes to Be Number One
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, "The Wisdom of Vince Lombardi", The Mirror, June 11, 2013
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged on one thing: the result.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, "Greatest Vince Lombardi Quotes", NFL.com
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, 101 Reasons to Love the Packers
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality -- the power to inspire.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Vince Lombardi's Winning Ways
One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
I firmly believe that any man's finest hours--his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle--victorious.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, "Greatest Vince Lombardi Quotes", NFL.com
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.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Dad's Playbook: Wisdom for Fathers from the Greatest Coaches of All Time