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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
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When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.
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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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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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Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
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[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Champions make their own luck.
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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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A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.
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They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.
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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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We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
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To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.
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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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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.
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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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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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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
Vince Lombardi