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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
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When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.
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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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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
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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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Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win these are the things that endure.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
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Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.
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The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.
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