American football coach (1913-1970)
There have been a lot of coaches with good ball clubs who know the fundamentals and have plenty of discipline but still don't win the game. Then you come to the third ingredient: If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. You've got to love each other. Each player has to be thinking about the next guy and saying to himself: If I don't block that man, Paul is going to get his legs broken. I have to do my job well in order that he can do his. The difference between mediocrity and greatness is the feeling these guys have for each other. Most people call it team spirit. When the players are imbued with that special feeling, you know you've got yourself a winning team.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Iacocca
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Sportswit
To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, "Greatest Vince Lombardi Quotes", NFL.com
Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, "Greatest Vince Lombardi Quotes", NFL.com
I'll beat this. I'm gonna beat this thing.
VINCE LOMBARDI
upon learning he had cancer, Vince Lombardi
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
They call it coaching, but it is teaching. You do not just tell them ... you show them the reasons.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, "Greatest Vince Lombardi Quotes", NFL.com
Jim Brown will give you that leg and then take it away from you. Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Lombardi: An Illustrated Life
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Pure Sport: Practical Sport Psychology
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Vince Lombardi's Winning Ways
We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership
The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Vince Lombardi: His Words
Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
VINCE LOMBARDI
first team meeting as Packers coach, Game of My Life: 25 Stories of Packers Football
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Vince Lombardi's Winning Ways
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, 101 Reasons to Love the Packers
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations