Vince Lombardi Quotes

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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Vince Lombardi
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

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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 a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.

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There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

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Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

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When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.

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One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.

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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

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Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

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Leadership rests not only upon ability but upon commitment and upon loyalty and upon pride and upon followers... Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

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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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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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Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

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I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline

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I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

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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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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

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