Vince Lombardi Short Quotes

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

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

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To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price

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

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

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

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

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

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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

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

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In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

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Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization...

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

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The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

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

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

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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

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

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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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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

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

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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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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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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'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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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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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

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