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Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

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
Football
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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
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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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Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.
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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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The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
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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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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind.
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There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
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Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.
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A man is known by the company he owns.
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There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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Gentlemen, this is the football.
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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
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Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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Winning is not the most important thing it's everything.
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I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.
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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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Chuck Noll is building one hell of a football team up in Pittsburgh.
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