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Gentlemen, this is the football.

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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
Gentlemen
Gentleman
Football

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We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
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Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
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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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Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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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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Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.
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Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.
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When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, I'm too tired I'm bushed I can't do this I'll loaf. Then you're a coward.
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The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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