Vince Lombardi Quotes About Excellence

Quotes about: Excellence

• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  President Robert Robbins' Installation Speech, president.arizona.edu. November 29, 2017.

• Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Perfection, Excellence, Impossible

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

• There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perfection

• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Football

• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Knowing

• They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational Sports, Teaching, Coaching

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

• After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Cheer, Dedication

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.261, McGraw Hill Professional

• 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

  Inspirational, Knowing, Perfect

  First team meeting as Packers coach in 1959. "Game of My Life: 25 Stories of Packers Football". Book by Chuck Carlson, p. 149, 2004.

• Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Knowing, Perfection, Excellence

• I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Commitment, Government

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.108, McGraw Hill Professional

• Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Memories, Winning

• Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge.

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Commitment, Sacrifice

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.7, McGraw Hill Professional

• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Jobs, Self, Excellence

• True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

  Vince Lombardi

  Perfection, Excellence, Unattainable

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

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Commitment

• Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

  Vince Lombardi

  Truth, Mind, Excellence

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

• winning is not everything it is the only thing

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Winning, Nfl

  Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.3, McGraw Hill Professional

• Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Greatness, Excellence, Achieve

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