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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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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.
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To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
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A man is known by the company he owns.
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Leaders are not born, they're made.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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A disciplined person is the one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
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If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.
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Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.
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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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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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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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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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The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.
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