Coaches Quote by Herb Adderley

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be…

— Bart Starr

It's special for me to coach the team Lombardi coached.

— Mike Holmgren

It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

— Jens Lehmann

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them…

— George Halas

I wanted to be the Number 1 overall pick.

— Alex Bregman

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever,…

— Bart Starr

Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between…

— Jerry Kramer

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't…

— Bear Bryant

If somebody said, 'You're going to be the Number 1 pick; you're going to have a great team around you all these years'? It…

— Paul Pierce

I think every kid who wants to play in the NFL has a dream of hoisting that Lombardi. It's what we all strive for,…

— Sam Darnold

The best thing you do as a coach is develop an environment where these guys can have some success. Vince Lombardi was that way.…

— Herm Edwards

This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.

— Joe Theismann