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Vince Lombardi [1913-1970] American

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Coach, Football player

Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi was an American football player, coach, and executive in the National Football League. He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight and five total NFL Championships in seven years, in addition to winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons.

Work, Sports, Success, Great, Good, Inspirational, Life, Respect, Society, Time, Best, Experience, Faith, Family, Knowledge, Learning, Strength

Quote	Tags	Rank
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.	Inspirational	101
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.	Best, Success, Work	102
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?	Sports	103
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.	Society, Work	104
Winners never quit and quitters never win.	Sports	105
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.	Life, Respect, Work	106
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.	Inspirational	107
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.	Success, Work	108
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.	Experience	109
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.	Good, Great	110
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.		111
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.	Great, Life, Respect, Work	112
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.	Time	113
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.	Success	114
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.	Society, Work	115
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.	Good, Sports	116
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.		117
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.	Work	118
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.	Sports	119
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.		120
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.		121
I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.		122
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.	Sports, Time	123
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.		124
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.	Great	125
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.	Knowledge, Strength, Success	126
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.		201
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.	Family, Success	202
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.		203
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.		204
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.		205
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?		206
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.		207
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.		208
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.		209
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.		210
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.		211
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.		212
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.		213
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.	Faith	214
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.		215
If you can accept losing, you can't win.		216
Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.		217
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?		218
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.	Learning	219
Success demands singleness of purpose.		220
There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.		221
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.		222
At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.		223

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