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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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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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Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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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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To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.
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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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A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'
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Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
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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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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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Champions make their own luck.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down it's whether you get back up.
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The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.
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No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind.
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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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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
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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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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
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