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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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Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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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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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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Gentlemen, this is the football.
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There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
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A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.
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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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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
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To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.
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Praise in public criticize in private.
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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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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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One's desire, not ability, determines success.
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