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All Quotes by author - Vince Lombardi

" A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders. "

" A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. "

" 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. "

" Battles are won in the hearts of men. "

" 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. "

" Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. "

" Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. "

" 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. "

" Fatigue makes cowards of us all. "

" 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. "

" Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. "

" Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins. "

" I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there? "

" 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. "

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

" If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. "

" If you can accept losing, you can't win. "

" If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale. "

" I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world. "

" Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. "

" 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. "

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

" I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now. "

" 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. "

" Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love. "

" Nobody wants to give up good players. "

" 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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