Vince Lombardi

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

The will to win is the only thing.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're no. 1. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

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.

Individual commitment to a group effort “ that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Its not whether you get knocked down its whether you get up.

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

The quality of a persons life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

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.

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

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

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words you dont do what is right once in awhile but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

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.

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

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.

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.

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

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

Leaders arent born they are made. And they are made just like anything else through hard work. And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.

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

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.

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.

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.

Mental toughness is essential to success.

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.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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

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

Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.

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.

Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.

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

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

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.

Winning is not everything but making the effort to win is.

Its not whether you get knocked down. Its whether you get up again.

The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.

You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.

Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

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 man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

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.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

To play this game football you must have fire in you and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

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

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