If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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Vince LombardiAs reported in Sportswit (1984) by Lee Green
About Vince Lombardi
American football coach who led the Green Bay Packers to five championships. (1913-1970)
More from Vince Lombardi
- Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence.First team meeting as Packers coach (1959), as reported in Game of My Life (2004)
- Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for the individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.As reported in Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001)
- Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.As reported in Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001)
- We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.As reported in Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001)
- You don't do it right once in a while; you do it right every time.Widely attributed; no primary source given on Wikiquote
- Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.What It Takes to Be Number One speech; Lombardi's own version of the line wrongly credited to him as 'Winning isn't everything'
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- Every artist was first an amateur.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.Viktor Frankl
- Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.William James
- Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.William James
- All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney
- Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.Mark Cuban
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