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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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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
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If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.
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Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
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We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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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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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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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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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
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I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.
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To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!
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