Quotes from Vince Lombardi

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

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

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

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

If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

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.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

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

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.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

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

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.