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winning is not everything it is the only thing

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
Victory
Football
Winning
Everything
Thing
Rugby
Nfl
Excellence

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Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.
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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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I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'
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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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You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.
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Inches make champions.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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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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Gentlemen, this is the football.
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