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
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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 I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
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 things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
When you've got the momentum in a football game... that is a time to keep going and get it into the end zone, ... We want to score for America's families.
I think the Kansas City team is a real top football team, but doesn't compare with the National Football League teams. That's what you want me to say. I said it.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
If you can accept losing you can't win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.
If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.
If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Be fired with enthusiasm or you'll be fired with enthusiasm.