Vince Lombardi Quotes

[greenminer]

• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
• 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.
• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
• I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there? (lol)
• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
• If you can accept losing, you can't win.
• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
• 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.
• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
• Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
• 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.
• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
• 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.
• 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.

Edited September 18, 2010 by greenminer