Collected Meditations
Showing 65 quotesAt 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
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
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
Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.— Vince Lombardi
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.— Vince Lombardi
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?— Vince Lombardi
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.— 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
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
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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
Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.— Vince Lombardi
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.— Vince Lombardi
I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.— Vince Lombardi
I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.— Vince Lombardi