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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
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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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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.
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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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A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.
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True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
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Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you've been there before.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
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If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.
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The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
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They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.
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Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.
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A team that thinks it's going to lose is going to lose.
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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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