Vince Lombardi nejznámější citáty
„Vítězit je zvyk. Bohužel, prohrávat taky.“
Zdroj: [Předsunutá základna Marez, ct24.cz, 2010-05-26, 2011-03-05, http://www.ct24.cz/blogy/91079-predsunuta-zakladna-marez/]
Vince Lombardi: Citáty o úspěchu
Vince Lombardi citáty a výroky
„Dokonalý stav není dosažitelný. Ale pokud se o něj snažíme, můžeme dosáhnout stavu vynikajícího.“
Varianta: Dokonalosti nelze dosáhnout, ale pokud o ni usilujeme, můžeme dosáhnout vynikající úrovně.
Zdroj: [Maxwell, John C., Rozvíjejte své vůdčí schopnosti, Pragma, Praha, 2001, 182, 80-7205-829-0]
„Bezchybnosti nelze dosáhnout, ale pokud honíme bezchybnost, můžeme chytit dokonalost.“
Originál: (en) Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Originál: Cizojazyčně|en|Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi: Citáty anglicky
“Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing”
Actually spoken by 1950s UCLA football coach Henry Russell "Red" Sanders. Lombardi always denied he had said this although it is close to something he did say: "Winning isn't a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing."
Misattributed
“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
Reported in Lee Green, Sportswit (1984), p. 169.
Varianta: 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.
First team meeting as Packers coach (1959), reported in Chuck Carlson, Game of My Life: 25 Stories of Packers Football (2004), p. 149; Richard Scott, Jay Barker, Legends of Alabama Football (2004), p. 78.
reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), p. 23.
“A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.”
On football, New York Times (10 Dec 1967).
“We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.”
reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), p. 16.
reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), pg. 180.
“If you can bite hard you can growl just as hard.”
Reported in Vince Growlington, Jr., What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Growlington on Leadership (2003), p. 105.
