“Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.”

“When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God – and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.”

“I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.”

“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.”

“There are three things that are important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Success is based upon a spiritual quality, a power to inspire others.”

“There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail at your job.”

“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.”

“Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.”

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

“To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.”

“Winning is a habit. Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs. Watch your beliefs, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.”

“You defeat defeatism with confidence.”

“You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.”

“I’ve been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don’t know whether I’m particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country’s best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.”

“There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.”

“At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.”

“Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.”

“If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

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

“It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win…”

“I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.”

“To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.”

“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

“Winning is not everything – but making the effort to win is.”

“Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization…”

“The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.”

“Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.”

“Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.”

“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.”

“Getting to the final is everything, and winning is icing on the cake.”

“A team that thinks it’s going to lose is going to lose.”

“When you’ve got the momentum in a football game, that is a time to keep going and get it into the end zone. We want to score for America’s families.”

“Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things – blocking and tackling.”

“Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both.”

“We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have see our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.”

“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”

“A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.”

“All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means… you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.”

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

“I’m not afraid to die – it’s just that I had so much left to do in this world.”

“A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.”

“I’ve been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I’m not without compassion.”