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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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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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winning is not everything it is the only thing
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I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.
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Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all the time thing.
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The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.
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The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
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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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There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.
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If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
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Inches make champions.
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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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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
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Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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