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Gentleman, this is a football.

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
Gentleman
Football

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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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We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.
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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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Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
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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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There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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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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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down it's whether you get back up.
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The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
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One's desire, not ability, determines success.
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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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The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
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