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
You've got to be in top physical condition. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.
Hard work is the price we must pay for success
I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.
In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.
Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.
If you get into the endzone, act as if you've been there before.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.