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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

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
Improve
Sports
Trying

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I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.
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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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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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Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
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Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.
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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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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.
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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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The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.
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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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Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.
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