Vincent Thomas Lombardi
The wisdom of Vince, in his own words ...
- "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- "Winners never quit and quitters never win."
- "Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."
- "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."
- "But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, his greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."
- "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?"
- "Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
- "Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
- "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
- "Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling."
- "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
- Vincent Thomas Lombardi
