"Gentleman, this is a football." — Vince Lombardi

"Gentleman, this is a football."

— Vince Lombardi

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201 Quotes by Vince Lombardi

Vince Lombardi has 201 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
Mental toughness is essential to success.
And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were…
I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.
Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of…
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing…
Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect…
While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

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