Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi was an American football player, coach, and executive in the National Football League. He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight and five total NFL Championships in seven years, in addition to winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons. Lombardi is considered by many to be one of the best and most successful coaches...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth11 June 1913
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Vince Lombardi quotes about
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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.
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
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.
It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.