Vince Lombardi citáty
Vince Lombardi
Datum narození: 11. červen 1913
Datum úmrtí: 3. září 1970
Vincent Thomas „Vince“ Lombardi byl americký fotbalový trenér.
Citáty Vince Lombardi
„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.“
— Vince Lombardi
reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), p. 23.
„We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.“
— Vince Lombardi
reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), p. 16.
„Leadership rests not only upon ability but upon commitment and upon loyalty and upon pride and upon followers... Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.“
— Vince Lombardi
reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), pg. 180.
„A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.“
— Vince Lombardi
On football, New York Times (10 Dec 1967).
„If you can bite hard you can growl just as hard.“
— Vince Lombardi
Reported in Vince Growlington, Jr., What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Growlington on Leadership (2003), p. 105.
„If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.“
— Vince Lombardi
Reported in Lee Green, Sportswit (1984), p. 169.
„Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing“
— Vince Lombardi
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."
„Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.“
— Vince Lombardi
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.
