Vince Lombardi – 24 Quotes

24 Quotes by Vince Lombardi

Success demands singleness of purpose.

– Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

– Vince Lombardi

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

– Vince Lombardi

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

– Vince Lombardi

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

– Vince Lombardi

Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.

– Vince Lombardi

We didn’t lose the game we just ran out of time.

– Vince Lombardi

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

– Vince Lombardi

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

– Vince Lombardi

If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

– Vince Lombardi

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

– Vince Lombardi

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

– Vince Lombardi

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

– Vince Lombardi

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

– Vince Lombardi

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

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

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

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

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

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

– Vince Lombardi

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

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

– Vince Lombardi

Winning is not a sometime thing it’s an all 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 habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

– Vince Lombardi

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