Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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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.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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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.
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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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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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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Battles are won in the hearts of men.
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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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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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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
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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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Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.
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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.
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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.
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The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.