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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

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
Motivational
Sports
Life
Excellence
Commitment
Victory
Demand

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A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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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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There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.
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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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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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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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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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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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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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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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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
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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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You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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