Vince Lombardi Leadership Quotations

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

A man is known by the company he owns.

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.