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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'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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The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.
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Gentlemen, this is the football.
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Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
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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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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.
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Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.
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Everyone Has A Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win
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Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.
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And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time.
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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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