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Hard work is the price we must pay for success

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
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Coaching
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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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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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Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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