Facts about Vince Lombardi 
Summary
Vince Lombardi was a famous Coach from USA, who lived between June 11, 1913 and September 3, 1970.
Biography
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi was coach of American football. He is best known for having been the head coach for the Green Bay Packers in 1960, where he led the team forward to including 2 Super Bowl championships.
Super Bowl trophy was in 1970 named after Lombardi. Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable.
Our collection contains 43 quotes who is written / told by Vince, under the main topics: Sports, Sports, Success, Wisdom.
Related authors: Bart Starr, Jerry Stiller
Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lombardi
Famous quotes by Vince Lombardi (43)
"If you can't accept losing, you can't win"
"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is"
"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence"
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm"
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up"
"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society"
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary"
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence"
"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect"
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser"
"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result"
"Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling"
"Success demands singleness of purpose"
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender"
"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have"
"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"
"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"
"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible"
"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"
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal"
"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"
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit"
"If you can accept losing, you can't win"
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work"
"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"
"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"
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all"
"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority"
"I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?"
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious"
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?"
"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"
"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything"
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing"
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall"
"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate"
"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"
"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual"
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will"
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall"
"Winners never quit and quitters never win"
"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing"
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing"
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