Vince Lombardi Quotes

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

I’ll put the Packers’ best players on defense. It’s best for a team and good for its morale.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it … Autograph your work with excellence.

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things – blocking and tackling.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.