Vince Lombardi

"The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there."

"I have never loved anything with the passion that I love football."

"Winning isn't everything—wanting to win is."

"Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity to do the work."

"Mental toughness is many things and really it is this: it is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, it is virtue."

"Leaders are made, they are not born; they are made by hard effort."

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle."

"Treat all employees as you would like to be treated if the situations were reversed."

"Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things: blocking and tackling."

"Run when you have the ball. Throw when you don't."

"You've got to pay the price."

"Once you agree upon the price you and your team have to pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the lagging instead of leading."

"If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

"Perfection is impossible, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

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

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

"Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence upon one another and of strength to be derived by unity."

"There is no room for second place. There is only first place."

"Everybody has to believe in something. I believe I'll have another cup of coffee."

"The greatest leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader, but ultimately to build confidence in themselves."

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing—the result."

"Follow me, and if I don't lead you well, get yourselves a new leader."

"I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates, but as their leader I must love them."

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

"Winning is not everything, but working toward winning is."

"I would say that the quality of each player is reflected in the team's performance."

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

"When you get knocked down, you get up."

"The greatest inspiration is often born from desperation."

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