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.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
Don’t do anything in practice that you wouldn’t do in the game.
At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.
You can achieve only that which you will do.
Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don’t mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that’s what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.
Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.
If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.