VINCE LOMBARDI

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

"Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated."

"Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence."

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand."

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."

"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate."

"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."

"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."

"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything."

"Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

"You defeat defeatism with confidence."

"As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered."

"If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business."

"A man can be as great as he wants to be."

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

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that 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 - victorious."

"The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable."

"There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order."

"One's desire, not ability, determines success."

"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."

"Live as if you were living already for the second time."

"If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough."

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

"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."

"The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders."

"We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness."

"There is no substitute for work."

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

"Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process."

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."

"The joy is in creating, not maintaining."

"Praise in public; criticize in private."

"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."

"One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long."

"Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder."

"Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character."

"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."

"I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about."

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

"The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group."

"If you get into the endzone, act as if you've been there before."

"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."

"If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life."