If ever there was a man who believed in success and winning, Vince Lombardi is that man. And the wonder of it all is that he strongly believed in people working together to excel and he inspired team work, no wonder he is considered one of the best football coaches of his time. Vince Lombardi owned one of the greatest name related to football history. He is the legendary coach of Green Bay Packers that won five (NFL) National Football League championships including the two Super Bowls.

In a world where people believe that to be successful one has to trample upon others and come out shining on top all alone, it is indeed refreshing to find someone who believed that by working together people could actually succeed even more. Read on and get inspired with his words. We compiled some of the best quotes of Vince Lombardi.

Famous Vince Lombardi Quotes

Vince Lombardi quotes touch on team work, commitment, disciple, having the will to succeed against all odds and many more self improvement characteristics that are needed in today’s world, whether corporate or even personal. Here are some of the few famous quotes by Vince Lombardi.

“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Success is based upon a spiritual quality, a power to inspire others.”
– Vince Lombardi

“There is no substitute for work.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
– Vince Lombardi

“To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.”
– Vince Lombardi

“At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The object is to win fairly, by the rules – but to win.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?”
– Vince Lombardi

“There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.”
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“….I firmly believe that any man’s finest hours – his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear – is that moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel — these are the things what will endure and these are the qualities that are so much more important than any of the events themselves.”
– Vince Lombardi

“They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them…you show them the reasons.”
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“After all the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written, and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and after all the pomp and fanfare have faded, the enduring thing that is left is the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.”
– Vince Lombardi

“If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.”
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“Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind – you could call it ‘character in action.’”
– Vince Lombardi

“Mental toughness is essential to success.”
– Vince Lombardi

“I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
– Vince Lombardi

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
– Vince Lombardi

“I would say that the quality of each man’s life is the full measure of that man’s commitment of excellence and victory – whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.”
– Vince Lombardi

Vince Lombardi Leadership Quotes

Is it any wonder then that he has been considered as one of the best and most successful coaches in the National Football League. Reading his quotes should inspire you to reach out and be the best through hard work, commitment, discipline and above all being part of a team and seeking the success of the team as a whole and not trying to outshine others in a bid to become a star.

“Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Leadership is based on a spiritual quality — the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”
– Vince Lombardi

“It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.”
– Vince Lombardi

“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.”
– Vince Lombardi

“A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.”
– Vince Lombardi

“No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.”
– Vince Lombardi

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
– Vince Lombardi

Vince Lombardi Quotes About Winning

The sun is the brightest of all stars because it brings out the beauty of everything it touches.   It’s really inspiring to read his best quotes and sayings. Here, we’re sharing you some of the best Vince Lombardi sayings on winning.

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Winning is not everything – but making the effort to win is.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization…”
– Vince Lombardi

“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged on one thing: the result.”
– Vince Lombardi

“If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”
– Vince Lombardi

“Winning is not a sometime thing…it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while…you don’t do the right thing once in a while…you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.”
– Vince Lombardi

“A team that thinks it’s going to lose is going to lose.”
– Vince Lombardi

“To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel – these are the things that endure and these are the qualities that are so much more important than any of the events that occasion them.”
– Vince Lombardi

“There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.”
– 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 thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Winning is a habit. Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs. Watch your beliefs, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.”
– Vince Lombardi

“If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.”
– Vince Lombardi

Vince Lombardi Inspirational Quotes

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off of the goal.”
– Vince Lombardi

“You defeat defeatism with confidence.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both.”
– Vince Lombardi

“If you don’t think you’re a winner, you don’t belong here.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.”
– Vince Lombardi

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

“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. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”
– Vince Lombardi

“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.”
– Vince Lombardi

“In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge.”
– Vince Lombardi

“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. “
– Vince Lombardi

“Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind – you could call it character in action.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Once you have established the goals you want and the price you’re willing to pay, you can ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure and the temporary failures.”
– Vince Lombardi

“There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail at your job.”
– Vince Lombardi