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There is no substitute for work.

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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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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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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Gentleman, this is a football.
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Winning is not the most important thing it's everything.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
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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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I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.
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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.
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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
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Inches make a champion.
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The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.
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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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