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Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

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
Excellence
Pursuit
Greatness
Achieve
Attainable

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If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.
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There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline otherwise, you will fail at your job.
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If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
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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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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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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.
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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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I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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Gentlemen, this is the football.
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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.
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The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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