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
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
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.
While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.
If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.
Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
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.
I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.