Vince Lombardi Quotes

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Just

• Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Makes

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Some

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Will, Well, Some

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Study

• Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Only, Perfect

• If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in With, Will
• 

  Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never, Win

• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Effort, Goal, Success, Work

  Tags in Willing

• If you can accept losing, you can’t win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accept, Losing

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Show

• Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never Give Up

• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Firmly, Believe

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Team Work, Feeling

• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Walk, Must

• Success demands singleness of purpose.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Demands, Purpose

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Green, Second

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Life, Respect

  Tags in Like

• The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Green, Game, 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Board, Play

Vince Lombardi (51)

Birth:	11th June, 1913
Death:	3rd September, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Football Analyst

About

Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi was an American football coach. He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight league championships and five in seven years, including winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons.

Related Authors

• Ron Jaworski
• Vince Lombardi
• Randy Cross
• Sir Stanley Rous

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 3rd December

Births

• 1924 - Ralph Regula
• 1871 - Newton Diehl Baker
• 1950 - Alberto Juantorena
• 1857 - Joseph Conrad
• 1952 - Mel Smith

Deaths

• 1910 - Mary Baker Eddy
• 1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson
• 1981 - Walter Knott
• 1962 - Mary Gilmore
• 1993 - Lewis Thomas