Vince Lombardi

“Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.”

“Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.”

“If you can accept losing, you can't win.”

“Leaders aren't born, they are made. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal which is worthwhile.”

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence”

“Winners never quit and quitters never win”

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

“You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.”

“Gentlemen, this is the football.”

“The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.”

“football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”

“the harder you work,the harder it is to surrender.”

“If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?”

“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

“In great attemps it is glorious even to fail”

“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.”

“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ”

“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." ”

“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.”

“If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling. ”

“Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

“Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.”

“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.”

“It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”

“Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.”

“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”

“The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.”

“We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”