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Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.

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
Sports
Winning
Everything
Striving
Strive

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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 objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
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[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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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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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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Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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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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A man is known by the company he owns.
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We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.
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There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
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