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Vince Lombardi was an American football player and coach, famous for his time as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers. He won five NFL championships and two Super Bowls during his tenure with the team. Lombardi's coaching philosophy centered on discipline, teamwork, and the importance of fundamentals. He was posthumously inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.

Famous Vince Lombardi Quotes

“[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.”

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“In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.”

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“I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.”

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Book:What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

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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.”

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“Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting”

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“The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.”

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“We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.”

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“We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

“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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“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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Book:What it Takes to be Number One

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“The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.”

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“Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.”

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Book:Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers

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“We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.”

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Book:What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

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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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Book:What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

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“To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.”

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“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.”

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Book:What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

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“Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.”

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“We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.”

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