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
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.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society.
Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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.
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.
Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting
Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
Gentlemen, this is the football.
winning is not everything it is the only thing
Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.