Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi

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"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."	Age, Courage, Desires
"After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live."	Death, Excellence, Greatness
"Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity."	Strength
"But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. 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."	Art
"Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport."	Football
"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."	Age, Art, Evil
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."	Miscellaneous
"If you can't accept losing, you can't win."	Acceptance, Sin
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Life
"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."	Excellence, Failure
"Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."	Effort, Men
"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner."	Faith
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."	Miscellaneous
"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Goals
"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."	Life, Men, Strength
"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run."	Miscellaneous
"Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success."	Art, Excellence, Life
"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."	Ability, Failure, Success
"Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell."	Excellence, Glory, Sin
"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."	Football
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