Quotes About Vince Lombardi
"When Lombardi said 'sit down,' we didn't look for a chair."
-- Forrest Gregg

"It was a helluva performance to listen to when he'd go out there and get his troops around him. He laughed. He cried. He motivated. I think he could motivate almost anybody to do almost anything. He communicated with human emotions."
-- Chuck Lane

"He made us realize that if the mind was willing, the body can go."
-- Forrest Gregg

"He made you a believer. He told you what the other team was going to do, and he told you what you had to do to beat them, and invariably he was right."
-- Willie Davis

"He made us all better than we thought we could be."
-- Jerry Kramer

"He pushed you to the end of your endurance and then beyond it. And if there was reserve there, well he found that too."
-- Henry Jordan

"All he wanted from you was perfection."
-- Jim Taylor

"Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best."
-- Bart Starr

"He prepared us so well, and he motivated us so well, I felt he was a part of me on the field."
-- Fuzzy Thurston

"His enthusiasm, his spirit, was infectious."
-- Frank Gifford

"Respect wasn't a one way street with him. He demanded it of others but he also gave it."
-- Pete Rozelle

"The fear in my mind was not him but that for some reason I would not be a part of this team and be with this man."
-- Forrest Gregg

"You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over."
-- George Halas

"It's true a lot of kids have been born long after Lombardi's been gone, but after his death he became part of American mythology. To that extent, he will live on, at least for baby boomers and maybe longer. He's part of the culture now."
-- David Maraniss, author of "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi"

" I don't think his legacy will ever shrink... Lombardi's on a high pedestal and deserves to be."
-- Current Green Bay Packers president Bob Harlan