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The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

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
Honest
Successful
Men

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If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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A man is known by the company he owns.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
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Gentleman, this is a football.
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In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.
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Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.
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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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The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
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