The Best Vince Lombardi quotes

Mental toughness is essential to success. — Vince Lombardi

Success demands singleness of purpose. — Vince Lombardi

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts. — Vince Lombardi Jr.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride. — 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

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

If you don’t think you’re a winner, you don’t belong here. — Vince Lombardi

If you can shrug off a loss, you can’t be a winner. — Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win. — Vince Lombardi

Winning is not the most important thing; it’s everything. — Vince Lombardi

Winning isn’t everything––but wanting to win is. — Vince Lombardi Jr.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. — Vince Lombardi

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner! — Vince Lombardi

If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score? — 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 is. — 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

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

Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity. — Vince Lombardi

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

Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things–blocking and tackling. — 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 best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody. — 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

We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies. — 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

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

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate. — Vince Lombardi

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. — 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 Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. — 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

You don’t do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time. — Vince Lombardi

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. — Vince Lombardi

They may not love you at the time, but they will later. — Vince Lombardi

Live as if you were living already for the second time. — Vince Lombardi

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

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

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

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

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

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he’s got to play from the ground up–from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. — Vince Lombardi

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late. — Vince Lombardi

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale. — Vince Lombardi

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team–you eat what the team eats. — Vince Lombardi

I’ve never been with a losing team in my life, and I don’t think I’ll start now. — Vince Lombardi

A team that thinks it’s going to lose is going to lose. — Vince Lombardi

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

Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh. — Vince Lombardi

I’ll put the Packers’ best players on defense. It’s best for a team and good for its morale. — 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

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

There’s no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence. — Vince Lombardi

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

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence! — Vince Lombardi

The pursuit of perfection may be impossible, but if we chase perfection, we just might catch excellence. — Vince Lombardi

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it. — 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

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

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence. — 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

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

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

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won’t catch it, but in the process we’ll achieve excellence. — Vince Lombardi