Vince Lombardi’s Quotes
· If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
· The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to
excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
· If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
· 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.
· In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
· 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.
· Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
· We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
· Winning isn't everything, it is the only thing.
· The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
· The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
· A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
· A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
· 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.
· Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
· 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 am the Fred Astaire of karate.
· I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
· Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
· It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
· Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
· Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
· Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
· Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
· Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
· 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.
· The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
· The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
· The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
· The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
· We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
· Winners never quit and quitters never win.
· Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
· 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.
· Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Most football teams are temperamental. That's 90% temper and 10% mental.
-Doug Plank
One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
- Alan Shearer
I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.
- Johnny Giles
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi
Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.
- Mary McGrory
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
- Gale Sayers
When in doubt, punt!
- John Heisman
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
- John Madden
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
- Archie Griffen
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
- Frank Gifford
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
- Duffy Daugherty
I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important -like a league game or something.
- Dick Butkus
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
- Joe Theismann
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
- Heywood Hale Broun
I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.
- Steve Henderson
Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.
- Arnold Mandell
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.
- Sue Lawley
I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.
- Terry Bradshaw
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
- Elbert Hubbard
Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.
-Tim Green
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
-Dan Birdwell
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
-George F. Will
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
-Erma Bombeck
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
-Erma Bombeck
If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
-Bob Golic
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.
-George Plimpton
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
-Jim Bouton
When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
-George Raveling
The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
-Phyllis Diller
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
-Erma Bombeck
There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the (butt).
-Dan Devine, former Notre Dame football coach
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
-Jack Tatum
He was the only man I ever saw who ran his own interference.
-Steve Owen, about Bronko Nagurski
Trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 toughs with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer.
-Anonymous referee, explaining his job
There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
-Alfred Hitchcock
Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.
-Tony Kornheiser
Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference.
-Jock Sutherland
When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.
-Chuck Mills
Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately.
-Reggie Williams, when asked his greatest strengths as a football player
The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.
-Alfred E. Crawley, The Book of the Ball, 1913
What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?
-Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
-Eugene J. McCarthy
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
-Knute Kenneth Rockne
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
- Don Shula |
