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Football isn't a contact sport it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

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
Gratitude
Homecoming
Dance
Collision
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Ballet
Football
Coaching
Sports
Coaches
Sport
Contact
Dancing

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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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There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
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I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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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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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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
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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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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
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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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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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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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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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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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