Vince Lombardi quotes:

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

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

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

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

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

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.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

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

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

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.

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

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.

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.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

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

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

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?

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

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

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

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.

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.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

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

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

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

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

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.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

Mental toughness is essential to success.

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.

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.

Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all 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. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.

I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

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.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

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.

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.

The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.

Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.

The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

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

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.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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

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

A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.

A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

A man is known by the company he owns.

A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose.

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

Champions make their own luck.

Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

Every time a player goes out 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 O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you 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.

Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win