Green Bay Quotes

• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Teamwork, Sports, Nfl

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

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• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Motivational Sports, Winning

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Football, Names

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• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• 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

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• We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Football, Motivational Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.2, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Winning, Nfl

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• I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Couple, Thinking

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• The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Time, Attitude

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• It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.

  Al Michaels

  Team, Cowboy, San Francisco

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• Vince Lombardi says, you know, "In my life, there are three things: God, family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family and Yahoo!, in that order.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Order, Empowering

  "News Stream" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. November 28, 2012.

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• If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Football, Cheating

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

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• There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

  Vince Lombardi

  Faith, Sports, Men

  Vince Lombardi (2000). “What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Rocks, People, Green

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• [Mike] just loves [his] motorcycle and he would take it out too early [in Green Bay]. In Green Bay, you've got ice until June, and he'd take it out sooner than that. He can finish the rest of the story. Ask him about taking the bike out a little too early.

  Steve Mariucci

  June, Ice, Motorcycle

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• I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.

  Brett Favre

  Thinking, Years, Green

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• I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums.

  John Madden

  Feelings, Soldier, Special

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• Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

  Ellen Raskin

  Turtles, Games, Grace

  Ellen Raskin (1997). “The Westing Game”, Puffin

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• I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.

  Jim Otto

  Green, Super Bowl, Packers

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• That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It's an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have.....The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay's quarterback. We'd probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb).

  Terrell Owens

  Integrity, Team, Athlete

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• We are not familiar with losing, and that is one thing we stress in this locker room: Dont get familiar with losing, because we never lose games here. I think a lot of guys know that, and they know the tradition behind the Green Bay Packers, so it is time for us to get on this road and start winning games.

  Donald Driver

  Stress, Winning, Thinking

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• I'm the only man with a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring who doesn't wear it. I'm a Green Bay Packer.

  Herb Adderley

  Cowboy, Men, Dallas

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