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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
Character
People
Eliminate
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To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.
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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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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!
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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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Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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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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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
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To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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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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There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
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