Vince Lombardi Quotes - Page 3

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• I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Character, People

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• I don't necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

  Vince Lombardi

  Loyalty, Teamwork, Player

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• Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Success, Softball

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• As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

  Vince Lombardi

  Mistake, Successful, Errors

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.149, McGraw Hill Professional

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• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

  Vince Lombardi

  Minutes, Late, Five

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• Many more things would be accomplished if we didn't consider them impossible.

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  Inspirational, Would Be, Impossible

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• Praise in public; criticize in private.

  Vince Lombardi

  Praise, Criticize

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• Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

  Vince Lombardi

  Winning, Sometimes, Habit

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• The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Running, Volleyball

  "El Guerrouj digs deep for long-awaited gold" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2004.

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• The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspiration, Wrestling, Winning

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• Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Esquire, Nov. 1962

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• It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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• If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

  Vince Lombardi

  Practice, Games, Rest Of Your Life

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• Mental toughness is essential to success.

  Vince Lombardi

  Congratulations, Essentials, Mental Toughness

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Loyalty, Inspiration

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• When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Trying

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• Live as if you were living already for the second time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Coaching

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• Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wrestling

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• Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

  Vince Lombardi

  Basketball, Coaching, Opponents

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• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

  Vince Lombardi

  Loss, Winning, Coaching

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• Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sports, Football, Block

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• You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.

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  War, Mean, Winning

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.257, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.

  Vince Lombardi

  Believe, Winning, Should Have

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education

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