Vince Lombardi on Work Quotes

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

"Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for the individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), p. 23."

"Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible."

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall."

"You can't be content with just being average."

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

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."

"They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them it is so, but you show them why it is so."

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

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

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

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

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."

"There is no substitute for work."

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

"Character is just another word for pride."

"He who has the most willpower will win."

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

"Winning is a habit. Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs. Watch your beliefs, they become your words."

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

"To be successful, you must forget about yourself and think about the team."

"Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial."

"Success is based upon a spiritual quality, a power to inspire others."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."

"Leaders are made, they are not born."

"You've got to pay the price for anything that is worthwhile, and success is one of those things."

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."