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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

Vince Lombardi

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Vince Lombardi
Age: 57 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 11
Died: 1970
Died: September 3
American Football Player
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Brooklyn
New York
Vincent Thomas Lombardi
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Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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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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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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Gentlemen, this is the football.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.
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While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.
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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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You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.
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