Top 25 Famous Vince Lombardi Quotes

Vince Lombardi

Professional football coach Vince Lombardi became a national symbol of single-minded determination to win. In nine seasons as the head coach of the previously moribund Green Bay Packers, Lombardi led the team to five NFL championships and to victory in the first two Super Bowls.

At Fordham University, Lombardi played guard on the famous line known as the “Seven Blocks of Granite.” He studied law at Fordham and had a brief career as a pro league football player before becoming a high school coach in 1939.

After serving as an assistant coach in college and in the pros, he was hired as head coach and general manager of the Green Bay Packers in 1959. His Spartan training regimen and personal drive turned the Green Bay Packers from a team accustomed to defeat to the paragon of victory.

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He went on to become head coach, general manager, and part-owner of the Washington Redskins before dying of cancer in 1970. In the history of all American sports, Lombardi is recognized as one of the greatest coaches and leaders and he was considered to be the greatest coach ever in football history. After his death, he was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Here are our Top 25 Famous Vince Lombardi Quotes for you.

Top 25 Famous Vince Lombardi Quotes

Winning is not a sometime thing… You don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time.

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

Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence.

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 which is worthwhile.

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

SHOW ME A GOOD LOSER AND I'LL SHOW YOU A LOSER.

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.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Once you have established the goals you want and the price you’re willing to pay, you can ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job, and the determination that, whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

CONFIDENCE IS CONTAGIOUS. SO IS LACK OF CONFIDENCE.

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

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

Man’s finest hour is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious.

I have discovered in my life that it is more challenging to build than to maintain.

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

NOBODY IS HURT. HURT IS IN THE MIND. IF YOU CAN WALK, YOU CAN RUN.

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.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self- denial.

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

Football is a game of inches and inches make the champion.

FOOTBALL IS A GAME OF INCHES AND INCHES MAKE THE CHAMPION.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged on one thing: the RESULT.

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.

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.

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

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

THE MEASURE OF WHO WE ARE IS WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT WE HAVE.