Vince Lombardi
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.Collection: Inspirational
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.Collection: Running
Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.Collection: Sacrifice
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.Collection: Motivational
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.Collection: Motivational
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.Collection: Success
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.Collection: Motivational
I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the disciplineCollection: Running
When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.Collection: Tired
Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.Collection: Nfl
Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.Collection: Inspirational
I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.Collection: Leadership
There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail at your job.Collection: Jobs
Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.Collection: Leadership
To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.Collection: Basketball
No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Football
In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.Collection: Successful
The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerableCollection: Memories
And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.Collection: Motivational
I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.Collection: Motivational
Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.Collection: Knowing
A man is known by the company he owns.Collection: Leadership
I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'Collection: Sports
I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.Collection: Football
Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.Collection: Sports
Inches make champions.Collection: Inspirational
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.Collection: Volleyball
We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.Collection: Games
Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.Collection: Truth
Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.Collection: Pay The Price
The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.Collection: Winning
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.Collection: Inspirational
Gentlemen, this is the football.Collection: Football
Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Motivational
Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.Collection: Smart
To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a priceCollection: Volleyball
The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.Collection: Winning
Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.Collection: Learning
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.Collection: Perseverance
I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.Collection: Loyalty
Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.Collection: Habit
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.Collection: Dance
Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...Collection: Dance
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Collection: Leadership
Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.Collection: Firsts
It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win...Collection: Firsts