VINCE LOMBARDI QUOTES III

American football coach (1913-1970)

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

Tags: life


Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Friday Night Light: Inspiration for the Game of Life


Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership

Tags: quitting


The quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's personal commitment to excellence and to victory.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, The Coaches' Chalkboard

Tags: life


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

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, The Lombardi Rules: 25 Lessons from Vince Lombardi, the World's Greatest Coach

Tags: discipline


Success demands singleness of purpose.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership

Tags: success


That's the only way I'd take the job. I doubt if I would have come just as coach. This is a better challenge, a better opportunity. I'll have to have a very fine staff and I'm sure I will.

VINCE LOMBARDI

when asked about the dual job of general manager and coach, Milwaukee Journal, January 28, 1959


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

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Vince Lombardi's Winning Ways


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

attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership


I've never been connected with a losing team and I hope to instill a winning spirit in the Packers in a lot less than five years.

VINCE LOMBARDI

Milwaukee Journal, January 28, 1959


Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership

Tags: motivation


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.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, "Greatest Vince Lombardi Quotes", NFL.com


In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership


You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership

Tags: sacrifice


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

VINCE LOMBARDI

New York Times, December 10, 1967

Tags: football


The objective is to win -- fairly, squarely, decently, by the rules, but to win.

VINCE LOMBARDI

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