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Vince Lombardi
The Green Bay Packers coach whose name is on the Super Bowl trophy and whose sentences are on half the gym walls in America. Winning, preparation, and will — Lombardi compressed a philosophy into locker-room lines.
Independently indexed citations from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1905) and Wikiquote — cited and licensed, not part of the curated verbatim registry.
“A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.”
On football, New York Times (10 Dec 1967).reference only0.60
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“If you can bite hard you can growl just as hard.”
Reported in Vince Growlington, Jr., What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Growlington on Leadership (2003), p. 105.reference only0.60
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“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
Reported in Lee Green, Sportswit (1984), p. 169.reference only0.60
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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. I am not remotely…”
First team meeting as Packers coach (1959), reported in Chuck Carlson, Game of My Life: 25 Stories of Packers Football (2004), p. 149; Richard Scott, Jay Barker, Legends of Alabama Football (2004), p. 78.reference only0.60
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“We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.”
reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), p. 16.reference only0.60
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“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.”
reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), p. 23.reference only0.60
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“Leadership rests not only upon ability but upon commitment and upon loyalty and upon pride and upon followers...Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents…”
reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), pg. 180.reference only0.60
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