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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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In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.
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We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
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To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price
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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.
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We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.
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Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge.
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.
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Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization...
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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
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Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
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Vince Lombardi
2007 © Focus on Sport
Born:
June 11, 1913
Died:
September 3, 1970
(aged 57)
Bio:
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi was an American football player, coach, and executive.
Known for:
What It Takes To Be Number #1
The Lombardi Rules
Run to Daylight (1963)
The Essential Vince Lombardi
Coaching for Teamwork
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