Vince Lombardi

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price

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

If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

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.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

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.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

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.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

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

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

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