Vince Lombardi

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.

Vince Lombardi

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them…you show them the reasons.

Vince Lombardi

They do not truly love who do not show their love.

Vince Lombardi

They may not love you at the time, but they will later.

Vince Lombardi

They’d better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.

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

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it … Autograph your work with excellence.

Vince Lombardi

We don’t pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

Vince Lombardi

When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God – and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.

Vince Lombardi

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team – you eat what the team eats.

Vince Lombardi