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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
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Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.
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Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'
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Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Leaders aren't born they are made.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
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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
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A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
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Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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