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I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

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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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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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A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.
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Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
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I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.
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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 achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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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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The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.
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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
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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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The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
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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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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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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
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True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
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