About Vince Lombardi

American football coach who led the Green Bay Packers to five championships. (1913-1970)

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• 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)
• 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
• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.As reported in Sportswit (1984) by Lee Green
• 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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• With such women consecrating their lives, failure is impossible!Susan B. Anthony
• Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.Helen Keller
• If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.Isaac Newton
• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.Grace Hopper
• Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.Jane Goodall

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