Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Humility
If you can accept losing you can’t win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Winners, Winning
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Teams, Teamwork
Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Confidence
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, Jr.
Topics: Success, Value, Work
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Determination, Strength
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Golf
There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man’s finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle… victorious.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Charity
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Defense, Help, Golf, Football
All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means… you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Winners, Winning
Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Perfection
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, Jr.
Topics: Value
Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Winning, Sports, Winners
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, Jr.
Topics: Teamwork, Teams
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing—the result.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Results
Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things-blocking and tackling.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Football
Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Commitment
I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline… I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour-this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear—is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle—victorious.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Satisfaction
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever—the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Achievement, Teamwork, Challenges
Winning is not a sometime thing; It’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
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, Jr.
Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Accomplishment, Goal, Leadership
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Possibilities, Potential
If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Defeat, Success
It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Practice
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 that is worthwhile.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Leadership
If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Excellence, Accomplishment
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Football, School
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that’s first place.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr.
Topics: Competition
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