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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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It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.
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Praise in public criticize in private.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
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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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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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They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.
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If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
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Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
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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.
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When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.
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There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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Inches make champions.
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Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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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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