Executive Quotes

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

If you get into the endzone, act as if you've been there before.

You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

The Winner is always part of the answer.The Loser is always part of the problem.The Winner always has a program.The Loser always has an excuse.The Winner says, "Let me do it for you."The Loser says, "That's not my job."The Winner sees an answer for every problem.The Loser sees a problem for every answer.The Winner sees a green near every sand trapThe Loser sees two or three sand traps near every green.The Winner says, "It may be difficult but it's possible."The Loser says, "It might be possible but it's too difficult."Be a Winner.

I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.

Every time a player goes out 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. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you 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.

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

One's desire, not ability, determines success.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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.

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

The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.

Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.

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.

Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.

There is no substitute for work.

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.

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

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

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.

I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

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

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

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

A man is known by the company he owns.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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

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

They may not love you at the time, but they will later.

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

And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.

We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.

The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

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

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

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

Leaders are not born, they're made.

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

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

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

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

Success demands singleness of purpose.