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The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

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
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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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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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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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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
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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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Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
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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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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
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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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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
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Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
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Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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winning is not everything it is the only thing
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.
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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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In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
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