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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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Vincent Thomas Lombardi
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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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We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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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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The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.
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We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time.
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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
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Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.
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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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Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.
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If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.
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We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
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The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable
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Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.
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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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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