Quotes from Vince Lombardi

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.

Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown act like you've been there before.

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

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.

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

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

One's desire, not ability, determines success.

Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

Mental toughness is essential to success.

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 greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

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.

In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.

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?

If you can accept losing, you can't win.