Top 40 Vince Lombardi Quotes

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

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.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

If you can shrug off a loss, you can’t be a winner.

Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things – blocking and tackling.

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Some guys play with their heads. That’s okay. 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.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

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.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

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.

If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

I’ve never been with a losing team in my life, and I don’t think I’ll start now.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.

I’m not afraid to die – it’s just that I had so much left to do in this world.

Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

Some guys play with their heads. That’s okay. 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.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

You don’t do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.