Vince Lombardi

Coach

1913-06-11

Quotes by Vince Lombardi

• 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 harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

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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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• Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

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• Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

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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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• Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

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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.

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• Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

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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.

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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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• 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.

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• If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

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• Battles are won in the hearts of men.

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