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If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

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
Coaching
Emotional
Wrong
Business
Heart
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Mentoring

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The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.
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[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
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The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
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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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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.
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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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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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The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.
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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
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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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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
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