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The Lombardi Way
Various quotes from the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame
Football Coach
- The harder you work, the
harder it is to surrender.
- A real executive goes around
with a worried look on his assistants.
- Football isn't a contact
sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
- Winning is not a sometime
thing -- it's an all time thing.
- You don't do things right
once in a while, you do them right all the time.
- You can do it if you have
singleness of purpose and discipline.
- The woods are full of
performers-we want champions.
- If two teams are the same in
physical ability and mental ability, it's the team with pride that wins.
- The greatest accomplishment
is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
- Mental toughness means dedication,
total commitment, and pride.
- I will demand a commitment to
excellence and to victory and that is what life is all about.
- I think that a boy with
talent has a moral obligation to God to fulfill it.
- Winning isn't everything-it's
the only thing.
- The only way to reconcile a
loss-if I know every man gave everything on every play-and if not- why?
- Three or four plays decide a
ball game, and you never know which ones it will be.
- There is no substitute for
work
- Teams do not go physically
flat, but they go mentally stale.
- The harder you work, the
harder it is to lose.
- Fatigue makes cowards of us
all.
- Many, many teams take the
easy road-champions must take a different route.
- In great attempts it is
glorious even to fail.
- Mental toughness includes: spartanism,
sacrifice, self denial, a state of mind, a perfectly disciplined will, and
the refusal to give in to ones self.
- If winning isn't everything,
why do they keep score?
- Confidence is contagious. So
is lack of confidence
- Football is like life, it requires
perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for
authority.
- If you aren't fired with
enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm
- The difference between a
successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
- We didn't lose the game; we
just ran out of time.
- If you can't accept losing,
you can't win.
- Winning is a habit.
Unfortunately, so is losing.
- The quality of a person's
life is in direct proportion to their commitment excellence, regardless of
their chosen field of endeavor.
- All right Mister, let me tell
you what winning means: you're
willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
- The spirit, the will to win,
and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so
much more important than the events that occur.
- Individual commitment to a
group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work, a society
work, a civilization work.
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