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Gentlemen, this is the football.

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
Football
Gentlemen
Gentleman

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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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It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.
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Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
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No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind.
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Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win these are the things that endure.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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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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Winning is not the most important thing it's everything.
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To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
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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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Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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