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Champions make their own luck.

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
Champions
Champion
Luck
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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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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.
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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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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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Praise in public criticize in private.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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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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Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.
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