Quotes from Vince Lombardi

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.

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

They do not truly love who do not show their love.

The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

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 habit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Champions make their own luck.

Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

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

Individual commitment to a group effort, gentlemen, that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

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.

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

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.

I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.