Vince Lombardi Quotes

• Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  Vince Lombardi

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  Tags in Once, Learn

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

  Vince Lombardi

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• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

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  Tags in Faith, Athlete

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

  Vince Lombardi

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  Tags in Thinking

• Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  Vince Lombardi

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  Tags in Lack

• 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

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  Tags in Board, Play

• Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Went, Live

• 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

• Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Always, Later

• Success demands singleness of purpose.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Demands, Purpose

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Quality, Person

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

  Vince Lombardi

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  Tags in Time, Many

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

  Vince Lombardi

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  Tags in With, Will

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

  Vince Lombardi

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  Tags in Team Work, Feeling

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

  Vince Lombardi

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  Tags in Green, Game, Time

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Agree, Once

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.

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