Sports Quotes by Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

— Vince Lombardi

Inches make a champion.

— Vince Lombardi

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

— Vince Lombardi

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

— Vince Lombardi

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

— Vince Lombardi

“Football is a game of inches and inches make the champion”

— Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.

— Vince Lombardi

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

— Vince Lombardi

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

— Vince Lombardi

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

— Vince Lombardi

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

— Vince Lombardi

We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All…

— Vince Lombardi

I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

— Vince Lombardi

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough,…

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Vince Lombardi

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I…

— Vince Lombardi

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

— Vince Lombardi

If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself…

— Vince Lombardi

Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready…

— Vince Lombardi

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision…

— Vince Lombardi

You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a…

— Vince Lombardi

If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay,…

— Vince Lombardi

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…

— Vince Lombardi

I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything…

— Vince Lombardi

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority…

— Vince Lombardi

And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly…

— Vince Lombardi

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

— Vince Lombardi

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

— Vince Lombardi

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

— Vince Lombardi

If winning isn't everything why do we bother keeping score

— Vince Lombardi

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

— Vince Lombardi

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Vince Lombardi

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

— Vince Lombardi

[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

— Vince Lombardi

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the…

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Vince Lombardi

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue…

— Vince Lombardi

“football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”

— vince lombardi