Vince Lombardi Quotes

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

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The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.

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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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Individual commitment to a group effort— that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

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Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

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The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.

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There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

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If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

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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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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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They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

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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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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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Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

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Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

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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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Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

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If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

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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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Of football:
A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

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And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

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The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.

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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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When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God - and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now.

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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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