Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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.
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.
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.
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the 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.
Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
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 that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Battles are won in the hearts of men.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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.
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.
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
