Vince Lombardi Quotes

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

The one thing I've said before, the one thing that I've been taught is that when you fall, you get right back up. And I'm up.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

You've got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you're knocked, you've got to get up.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up.

When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.

You have to be resilient.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.

When you fall, get right back up.

If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

Going through SEAL training taught me that it's OK to fall down three times, as long as you get up four. This is a good philosophy for most things in life.

We've all been there, where it seems like all the cards are stacked against you, and you can't seem to do anything right. But you still have to say to yourself, 'You know what? That's not going to stop me. I still have to find a way.'

You are going to get knocked down, but you don't lie there. You get up and face the challenge.

When I got knocked down, I got back up.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.