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
Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.
In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.
I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.
[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.
A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.
The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win.
Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.
To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!
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.
You defeat defeatism with confidence.