Vince Lombardi Quotes

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

I don't believe that playing video games in the locker room is part of earning the right to win.

We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

We've got to play better basketball.

I want to win football games.

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

Feelings aren't going to help me win a game.

I think the main thing about football is confidence.

Club or national training is the same. We play as we train.

To win games, we need to be focused for 95 minutes. If not, you always pay in football.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

Strikers never lose games... we have to be honest and say that.

Ultimately, we've got to make sure our players understand that the margin for error is very small against these top teams in the world, and we've been punished several times for that.

We players are very well aware that being a favourite won't win you a game, that your jersey won't win you a game.

I think all you can do is prepare properly for every game but you also have to be realistic. Be realistic about what you are as a team.

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.

You can play perfect football, lots of one-touch stuff, and you lose. But that's not what you want, you want to win.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

You do everything you can to be successful. You know that you have to win games. It's a must. So you do the things that put your guys in the best position to be successful schematically.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

Defense, for me, is where I really love to put work in most. Defense is, in my mind, what wins games.