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
The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win.
To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.
Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.
In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.
Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.
When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.
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.
I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.
No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind.
Leaders are made, they are not born
The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.
Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.
[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.