Vince Lombardi Quotes

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Wisdom, Winning, Everything

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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Black, Win, Player

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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Time, Game, Lose

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

School, Football, Study

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.
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Faith, Yourself, Winner

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Makes, Cowards, Fatigue

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.
Vince Lombardi

Control, Win, Leader

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

Sports, Winning, Losing

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi

Work, Surrender, Harder

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm, Fired

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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Why, Keep, Matter

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.
Vince Lombardi

Winning, Everything, Win

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

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Game, Football, Two

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Effort, Individual, Results

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.
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Another, Loved, Individual

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
Vince Lombardi

Result, Jobs, Judged

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

Impossible, Accomplish

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
Vince Lombardi

Time, Game, Place

Success demands singleness of purpose.
Vince Lombardi

Success, Purpose, Demands

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Coach

Born: June 11, 1913

Died: September 3, 1970

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