Vince Lombardi

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The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Winning
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Leadership
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Positive
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To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Football
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We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Hero
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All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Teamwork
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They may not love you at the time, but they will later.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Love You
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There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Inspirational
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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Inspirational
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Shows
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Faith
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Failure
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Mistake
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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Motivational
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One's desire, not ability, determines success.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Desire
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Inspirational
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Motivational
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True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Perfection
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A man can be as great as he wants to be. 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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Inspirational
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Motivational
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Inspirational
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If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Believe
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There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Faith
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After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Motivational
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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Mistake
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If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Mean
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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Motivational
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Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Humility
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We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Greatness
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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Sky
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Attitude
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Football
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There is no substitute for work.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Success
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Motivational
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Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Inspirational
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Sports
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Jobs
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Minutes
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Success
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I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Character
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Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Perfection
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you've been there before.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Ifs
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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Motivational
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Lasts
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Praise
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Opponents
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Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Winning
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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.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Believe
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Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Motivational