
Kicking off the football season with some wisdom and inspiration for legendary coach Vince Lombardi.
"Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character." - Vince Lombardi
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.” - Vince Lombardi
"Mental toughness is essential to success.” - Vince Lombardi
"To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.” - Vince Lombardi
"Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.” - Vince Lombardi
"Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.” - Vince Lombardi
"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.” - Vince Lombardi
"Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both.” - Vince Lombardi
"If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” - Vince Lombardi
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” - Vince Lombardi
"Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.” - 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
"It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.” - Vince Lombardi
"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.” - Vince Lombardi
" Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.” - Vince Lombardi
"Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.” - Vince Lombardi
"Winning is not everything--but making effort to win is." - Vince Lombardi
"Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.” - Vince Lombardi
"The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vince Lombardi
"A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the company.” - Vince Lombardi
"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.” - Vince Lombardi
"They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them…you show them the reasons." - Vince Lombardi
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." - Vince Lombardi
"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." - Vince Lombardi
"It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere." - Vince Lombardi
"Excellence is achieve by the mastery of the fundamentals." - Vince Lombardi
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." - Vince Lombardi
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives." - Vince Lombardi
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi
"I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something good in men that really yearns for discipline." - Vince Lombardi
"Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action." - Vince Lombardi
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." - Vince Lombardi
"Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Vince Lombardi
"Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale." - Vince Lombardi
"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual." - Vince Lombardi
"Success demands singleness of purpose." - Vince Lombardi
"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result." - Vince Lombardi
"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." - Vince Lombardi
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that 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." - Vince Lombardi
"Perfection is not attainable but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi