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 like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
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.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch 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.
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.
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.
getting to the final is everything, and winning is icing on the cake.