Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

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

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 difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

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

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

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.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

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.

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

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

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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.

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

Mental toughness is essential to success.

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.

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.