Quote

The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

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
Plans
Game
Games
Best
Never
Tackled
World
Blocked
Plan
Anybody

More quotes by Vince Lombardi

Image
I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.
Vince Lombardi
Image
We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
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
If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Gentlemen, this is the football.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
Image
There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
Vince Lombardi
Image
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.
Vince Lombardi
Image
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
Image
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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
Football isn't a contact sport it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Vince Lombardi
Image
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
Image
If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Mental toughness is essential to success.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Inches make champions.
Vince Lombardi
Image
To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.
Vince Lombardi
Image
A disciplined person is the one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
Vince Lombardi
Image
Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.
Vince Lombardi
Image
When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
Vince Lombardi