Vince Lombardi on Work Quotes

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

"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."

"There is no substitute for work."

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

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

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

"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."

"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up."

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

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

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

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

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

"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."

"Leaders are made, they are not born."

"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."

"He who has the most willpower will win."

"Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one's might and every bit of effort that we have."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline."

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

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

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

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