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I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.

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
Eliminate
Build
Character
People

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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind.
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Praise in public criticize in private.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.
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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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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
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All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
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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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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
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