Vince Lombardi Quotes
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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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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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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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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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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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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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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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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Battles are won in the hearts of men.
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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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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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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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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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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.