Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

Quotes

• The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

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

• Mental toughness is essential to success.

• There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.

• Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a hitting sport.

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

• Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

• The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasion them.

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

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

• You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of live.

• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-- victorious.

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

• The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.

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

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

• 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 aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

• In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.