"Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection,……" — 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. I am not remotely interested in just being good."
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Vince Lombardi
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201 Quotes by Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi has 201 quotes on this site.
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It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were…
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I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.
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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
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To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of…
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Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing…
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Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect…
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While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense…
— Red Auerbach
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you…
— Pearl Bailey
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
— Harvey Ball
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
— Dave Barry
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
— Erma Bombeck
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
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