Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi was an American football player, coach, and executive in the National Football League. He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight and five total NFL Championships in seven years, in addition to winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons. Lombardi is considered by many to be one of the best and most successful coaches...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth11 June 1913
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.
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.
Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'
I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.
Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...
If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.