Vince Lombardi

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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the 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 habit.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Time
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Life
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Success
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Inspirational
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Inspirational
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Work
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Work
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Work
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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
Collection: Great
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Faith
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Family
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Experience
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Time
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Knowledge
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Work
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Time
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Business
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Sports
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Respect
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Work
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Great
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I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Time
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Success
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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Good
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Sports
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Battles are won in the hearts of men.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Men
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Success
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Learning
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Sports
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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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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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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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
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A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
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The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
- Vince Lombardi
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
- Vince Lombardi