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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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Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.
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Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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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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When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, I'm too tired I'm bushed I can't do this I'll loaf. Then you're a coward.
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Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.
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The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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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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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time.
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There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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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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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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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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Inches make a champion.
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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
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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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The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
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