Talk:Vince Lombardi

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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour his greatest fulfilment to all he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorous.
• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
  • It's in this book by Vince Lombardi (and his son), but I'm not sure it's a trustworthy citation: What it Takes to be Number One --Hughh (talk) 19:24, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
• When you go into the endzone, act like you've been there before.
• The greatest motivation is fear.
• Fatigue makes cowards of us all. You cannot play fatigued.
• You don't do it right once in a while; you do it right all the time.
• Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
• I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
• Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
• The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
• 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.
• Quitters never win, winners never quit.
• Battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
• Practice does not make perfect, it does make permanent.

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