Vince Lombardi Football Quotations

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 else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.

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

Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

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.

Gentlemen, this is the football.

winning is not everything it is the only thing

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

If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

Gentleman, this is a football.

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

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

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization...

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

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

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

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

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

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

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

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

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.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society.

Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I think the Kansas City team is a real top football team, but doesn't compare with the National Football League teams. That's what you want me to say. I said it.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up -- from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's OK You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. 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.

When you've got the momentum in a football game... that is a time to keep going and get it into the end zone, ... We want to score for America's families.