Vince Lombardi

They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

At 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.

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

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.

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.

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.

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.

I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

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?

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

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.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

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.

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.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

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

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

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.