Quote

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

Vince Lombardi

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vince Lombardi
Age: 57 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 11
Died: 1970
Died: September 3
American Football Player
Football Player
Brooklyn
New York
Vincent Thomas Lombardi
Statistics
Motivational
Sports
Interesting
Past

More quotes by Vince Lombardi

Image
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.
Vince Lombardi
Image
You defeat defeatism with confidence.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Mental toughness is essential to success.
Vince Lombardi
Image
The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.
Vince Lombardi
Image
In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
Image
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
Vince Lombardi
Image
True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
Vince Lombardi
Image
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
Vince Lombardi
Image
I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi
Image
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.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
Vince Lombardi
Image
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.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
Vince Lombardi