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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. -- Vince Lombardi
Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you. -- Vince Lombardi
Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader. -- Vince Lombardi
I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion. -- Vince Lombardi
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 -- Vince Lombardi
When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward. -- Vince Lombardi
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
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. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself. -- 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
You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man. -- Vince Lombardi
If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late. -- Vince Lombardi
If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win -- Vince Lombardi
We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness. -- Vince Lombardi
If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business. -- Vince Lombardi
I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you. -- Vince Lombardi
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology. -- Vince Lombardi
If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life. -- Vince Lombardi
Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you. -- Vince Lombardi
Leaders are not born, they're made. -- Vince Lombardi
Leaders aren't born they are made. -- Vince Lombardi
Leaders are made, they are not born -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.' -- Vince Lombardi
We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving. -- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is. -- Vince Lombardi
I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there. -- Vince Lombardi
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible. -- Vince Lombardi
I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity. -- Vince Lombardi
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. -- Vince Lombardi
Inches make champions. -- Vince Lombardi
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere. -- Vince Lombardi
True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence! -- Vince Lombardi
Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling. -- 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
No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind. -- Vince Lombardi
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
When you are through trying to improve, you are through. -- Vince Lombardi
The will to win ... the will to achieve ... goes dry and arid without continuous renewal. -- Vince Lombardi
All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else. -- Vince Lombardi
It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win ... -- Vince Lombardi
You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win. -- Vince Lombardi
The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. -- Vince Lombardi
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow -- Vince Lombardi
To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate. -- Vince Lombardi
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 -- Vince Lombardi
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. -- Vince Lombardi
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again. -- Vince Lombardi
There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. -- Vince Lombardi
One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long. -- Vince Lombardi
You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough. -- Vince Lombardi
The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together. -- Vince Lombardi
Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was ... If you can't accept losing, you can't win. -- Vince Lombardi
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. -- Vince Lombardi
There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order. -- Vince Lombardi
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity. -- Vince Lombardi
Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization ... -- Vince Lombardi
Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength. -- Vince Lombardi
Winning is not everything it is the only thing -- Vince Lombardi
Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride. -- Vince Lombardi
Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. -- Vince Lombardi
We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes ... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character. -- Vince Lombardi
Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender. -- Vince Lombardi
A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants. -- Vince Lombardi
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it. -- Vince Lombardi
Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments. -- Vince Lombardi
To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination. -- Vince Lombardi
When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats. -- Vince Lombardi
The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies. -- Vince Lombardi
It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up. -- Vince Lombardi
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince. -- Vince Lombardi
I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection. -- Vince Lombardi
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? -- Vince Lombardi
I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world. -- Vince Lombardi
A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose. -- Vince Lombardi
Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success. -- Vince Lombardi
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there? -- Vince Lombardi
In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play. -- Vince Lombardi
There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence. -- Vince Lombardi
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. -- Vince Lombardi
One's desire, not ability, determines success. -- Vince Lombardi
Winning is not the most important thing; it's everything. -- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. -- Vince Lombardi
A man is known by the company he owns. -- Vince Lombardi
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. -- Vince Lombardi
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. -- Vince Lombardi
You defeat defeatism with confidence. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Gentleman, this is a football. -- Vince Lombardi
The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win. -- Vince Lombardi
Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence. -- Vince Lombardi
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result. -- Vince Lombardi
Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated. -- Vince Lombardi
Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him. -- Vince Lombardi
There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline. -- Vince Lombardi
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale. -- Vince Lombardi
Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible. -- Vince Lombardi
The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything. -- Vince Lombardi
Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence. -- Vince Lombardi
They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them ... you show them the reasons. -- Vince Lombardi
Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment. -- Vince Lombardi
The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win. -- Vince Lombardi
Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder. -- Vince Lombardi
Champions make their own luck. -- Vince Lombardi
Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh. -- 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
Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism. -- Vince Lombardi
Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence. -- Vince Lombardi
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. -- Vince Lombardi
Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit. -- Vince Lombardi
If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. -- Vince Lombardi
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? -- Vince Lombardi
I derived my strength from daily mass and communion. -- Vince Lombardi
The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there. -- Vince Lombardi
Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. -- Vince Lombardi
There is no substitute for work. -- Vince Lombardi
Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. -- Vince Lombardi
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. -- Vince Lombardi
There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail at your job. -- Vince Lombardi
We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice. -- Vince Lombardi
They do not truly love who do not show their love. -- Vince Lombardi
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders. -- Vince Lombardi
I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. -- Vince Lombardi
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about. -- Vince Lombardi
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? -- Vince Lombardi
While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past. -- Vince Lombardi
Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored. -- Vince Lombardi
The joy is in creating, not maintaining. -- Vince Lombardi
Hard work is the price we must pay for success -- Vince Lombardi
Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting -- Vince Lombardi
Mental toughness is essential to success. -- Vince Lombardi
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. -- Vince Lombardi
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. -- Vince Lombardi
Inches make a champion. -- Vince Lombardi
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. -- Vince Lombardi
Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless. -- Vince Lombardi
To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price -- Vince Lombardi
If you get into the endzone, act as if you've been there before. -- Vince Lombardi
No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all. -- Vince Lombardi
They may not love you at the time, but they will later. -- Vince Lombardi
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. -- Vince Lombardi
Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have. -- Vince Lombardi