Teamwork Vince Lombardi Quotes

Leaders are made, they are not born ~ 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

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was ... If you can't accept losing, you can't win. ~ 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 Jr.

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. ~ 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

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

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. ~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

Winning in not a sometimes thing. You don't win once in awhile... You don't do things right once in awhile... You do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. ~ Vince Lombardi

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats. ~ Vince Lombardi

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price ~ 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

Sometimes we get discouraged and turn to inspirational writing, like stuff from Vince Lombardi: "Quitters never win and winners never quit." Bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time. Most people quit. They just don't quit successfully. ~ Anonymous

Leaders are not born, they're made. ~ 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

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

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself. ~ Vince Lombardi

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride. ~ Vince Lombardi

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

There is no substitute for victory" Oscar Wilde
"I didn't say that--wouldn't have. Maybe it was Vince Lombardi" O.W.

"Not I, either. Try Count von Schlieffen" Vince Lombardi

"What's the big deal. I said it---I think. Doh!" Homer Simpson

"Imposter. 'Twas I." Homer the original (Greek guy) ~ James J. Bloom

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

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

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

Football is a game of inches and inches make the champion ~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

One's desire, not ability, determines success. ~ Vince Lombardi

Hard work is the price we must pay for success ~ Vince Lombardi

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all. ~ 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 team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose. ~ Vince Lombardi

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up. ~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

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

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

No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind. ~ Vince Lombardi

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

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

When you think about it, what's the difference between Bobby Knight and Vince Lombardi? Why is one guy a god, and the other guy is regarded as a crazy man? ~ Brian Dennehy

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them ... you show them the reasons. ~ Vince Lombardi

Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored. ~ 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

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them. ~ Vince Lombardi