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 spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.
Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.
True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.
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... I firmly believe that any man's finest hour-this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious.
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up -- from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's OK You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.