Vince Lombardi Quotes

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

“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.”

“To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.”

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

“At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.”

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

“Leaders are not born, they're made.”

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

“You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.”

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

“Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!”

“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 on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.”

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

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

“Hard work is the price we must pay for success”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Nobody wants to give up good players.”

“A man is known by the company he owns.”

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

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

“Praise in public; criticize in private.”

“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.”