Vince Lombardi, whose full name is Vincent Thomas Lombardi, was born June 11, 1913, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.and died September 3, 1970, in Washington, D.C., was an American football coach and executive in the National Football League (NFL). He is considered by many to be the greatest coach in the history of football, and among the greatest coaches and leaders in all American sports. As the Packers’ head coach during the 1960s, he led the team to three consecutive and five total NFL championships in seven years, including winning the first two Super Bowls at the end of the 1966 and 1967 seasons.
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Vince Lombardi Quotes:
- 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.
- 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.
- Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
- The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
- The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
- 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.
- Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
- The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
- 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.
- Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
- The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
- Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
- The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
- We run to win, not just to be in the race.
- Some guys play with their heads. That’s okay. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
- If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
- Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
- We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
