393 Quotes by 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.

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

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

Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.