Vince Lombardi Quotes

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

“Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.”

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

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”

“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 difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.”

“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”

“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?”

“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.”

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

“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.”

“Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

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

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

“If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.”

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

“We run to win, not just to be in the race.”

“If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

“There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place.”