Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes by Vince Lombardi

In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.
- Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi Persistence
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
- Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi Persistence
We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
- Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi Persistence
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi Persistence
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.
- Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi Persistence
If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won’t let him get away. That’s tackling.
- Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi Persistence
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
Vince Lombardi Persistence
Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.
- Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi Persistence
The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
- Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi Persistence
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
- Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi Persistence