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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
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Vince Lombardi
Age: 57 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 11
Died: 1970
Died: September 3
American Football Player
Football Player
Brooklyn
New York
Vincent Thomas Lombardi
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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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.
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If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.
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The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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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.
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