Vince Lombardi Quotes About Winning

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  • winning is not everything it is the only thing

    Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.3, McGraw Hill Professional
  • Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win

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

  • Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

    Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.112, McGraw Hill Professional
  • 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 (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”
  • Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

  • The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.

  • And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

    Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.192, Simon and Schuster
  • The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. 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, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

  • If you can accept losing, you can't win.

  • No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

    Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.45, McGraw Hill Professional
  • 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.

  • The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.

    "What It Takes to Be Number One".
  • The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

    Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.60, McGraw Hill Professional
  • 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 (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.257, McGraw Hill Professional
  • To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

    Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.232, McGraw Hill Professional
  • 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, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • 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 (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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

    "El Guerrouj digs deep for long-awaited gold" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2004.
  • 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 (2000). “What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw Hill Professional
  • 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.

  • Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.

    Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education
  • Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

    Vince Lombardi, George L. Flynn (1973). “Vince Lombardi on football”
  • Winning is not the most important thing; it's everything.

  • The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

    Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.217, McGraw Hill Professional
  • Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

    "Donald Trump’s Concession Speech" by Noam Bramson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 02, 2016.
  • A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose.

    Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education
  • Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.

    Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Vince Lombardi

  • Born: June 11, 1913
  • Died: September 3, 1970
  • Occupation: Football player