Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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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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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Battles are won in the hearts of men.
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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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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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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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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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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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We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
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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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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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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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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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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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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.