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
Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting
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.
Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
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.
[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.
We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
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.
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.