Vince Lombardi > Quotes

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.”
― Vince Lombardi

“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.”
― Vince Lombardi

“It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
― Vince Lombardi

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.”
― Vince Lombardi

“The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.”
― Vince Lombardi

“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." ”
― Vince Lombardi

“football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
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“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence”
― Vince Lombardi

“We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
― Vince Lombardi

“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.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.”
― Vince Lombardi

“the harder you work,the harder it is to surrender.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Leaders aren't born, they are made. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal which is worthwhile.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Winners never quit and quitters never win”
― Vince Lombardi

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible”
― Vince Lombardi Jr.

“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ”
― Vince Lombardi

“If you can accept losing, you can't win.”
― Vince Lombardi

“If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling. ”
― Vince Lombardi

“You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
― Vince Lombardi, Vince Lombardi's Winning Ways

“In great attemps it is glorious even to fail”
― Vince Lombardi

“When you go into the end zone, act like you've been there before.”
― Vince Lombardi

“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.”
― Vince Lombardi Jr.

“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.”
― Vince Lombardi