Top 160 Vince Lombardi Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Inches make champions.”

— Vince Lombardi

52. “Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”

— Vince Lombardi

53. “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.”

— Vince Lombardi

54. “If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.”

— Vince Lombardi

55. “The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.”

— Vince Lombardi

56. “Winning is not the most important thing; it’s everything.”

— Vince Lombardi

57. “If you don’t think you’re a winner, you don’t belong here.”

— Vince Lombardi

58. “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

59. “Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”

— Vince Lombardi

60. “Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.”

— Vince Lombardi

61. “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 intolerable.”

— Vince Lombardi

62. “Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.”

— Vince Lombardi

63. “Leaders are made, they are not born.”

— Vince Lombardi

64. “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.”

— Vince Lombardi

65. “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.”

— Vince Lombardi

66. “There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.”

— Vince Lombardi

67. “You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.”

— Vince Lombardi

68. “Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.”

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Vince Lombardi

70. “Gentlemen, this is a football.”

— Vince Lombardi

71. “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.”

— Vince Lombardi

72. “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

73. “Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.”

— Vince Lombardi

74. “The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”

— Vince Lombardi

75. “Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?”

— Vince Lombardi

76. “Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

77. “Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.”

— Vince Lombardi

78. “You defeat defeatism with confidence.”

— Vince Lombardi

79. “The successful man is himself. To be successful, you’ve got to be honest with yourself.”

— Vince Lombardi

80. “I don’t build character. I eliminate the people who don’t have it.”

— Vince Lombardi

81. “Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.”

— Vince Lombardi

82. “Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.”

— Vince Lombardi

83. “Live as if you were living already for the second time.”

— Vince Lombardi

84. “Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”

— Vince Lombardi

85. “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.”

— Vince Lombardi

86. “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

87. “Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.”

— Vince Lombardi

88. “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.”

— Vince Lombardi

89. “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.”

— Vince Lombardi

90. “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

— Vince Lombardi

91. “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.”

— Vince Lombardi

92. “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

93. “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.”

— Vince Lombardi

94. “It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”

— Vince Lombardi

95. “Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.”

— Vince Lombardi

96. “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

97. “There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.”

— Vince Lombardi

98. “People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”

— Vince Lombardi

99. “Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.”

— Vince Lombardi

100. “Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.”

— Vince Lombardi