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VINCE LOMBARDI

VINCE LOMBARDI. Kayla Sangrey Peer Leadership 3rd. “Winning is not a sometime thing…it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while…you don’t do the right thing once in a while…you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit .” .

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VINCE LOMBARDI

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  1. VINCE LOMBARDI Kayla Sangrey Peer Leadership 3rd “Winning is not a sometime thing…it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while…you don’t do the right thing once in a while…you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.”

  2. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” BACKGROUND • Born: Vincent Thomas Lombardi on June 11, 1913 in Brooklyn, New • Oldest of 5 children • Strict Catholic household • Helped in the family butcher shop • Father encouraged his sport interests but mother feared him getting hurt • Married: Marie Planitz in 1940 • Children: Vince Lombardi Jr. and Susan Lombardi

  3. EDUCATION • 1928: entered Cathedral College of Immaculate Conception • Starting center on basketball team, outfield and catcher for baseball • 2 years later transferred to St. Francis Preparatory and started as fullback on football team • Earned scholarship to Fordham University • Member of famed “Seven Blocks of Granite” • Graduated magna cum laude in 1937 “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

  4. “There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.” CAREER • Took teaching and assistant football coaching position at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, NJ • 1942: took over as head coach at St. Cecilia with record of 39 wins • Successful 8 years

  5. CAREER • 1947: joined coaching staff at alma mater • 1949: continued coaching at West Point for 5 seasons under Red Blaik • Developed traits of simplicity and execution • 1954: assistant coach to Jim Lee Howell of New York Giants “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

  6. CAREER “I need to win only 2 games next season and Green Bay will have improved 100 percent.” • January 1959: accepted head coaching position and signed 5-year contract with Green Bay Packers • Nowhere to go, but up • Coach in charge • “Hard-edged style” • Players started to believe new mantra “If you don’t think you’re a winner, then you don’t belong here.” • 1959 season finished 7-5 and Lombardi named Coach of the Year “The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but rising again after you fall.”

  7. CAREER • Led Packers to 6 division titles, 5 NFL championships along with victories in Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II • Record of 105-35-6, 3 straight titles • No losing season EVER under Lombardi • 2 year break and in 1969 went to Washington Redskins “Leaders are made, they are not born.”

  8. SEVEN HABITS • Be Proactive: Lombardi was very strategic. • Begin with the End in Mind: Lombardi was fiercely determined. • Think Win-Win: He never gave up on his teams. • Synergize: He went off of what other coaches started with.. “The object is to win fairly, by the rules – but to win.”

  9. LEGACY LIVES ON • Diagnosed with an aggressive form of colon cancer in June 1970 • Died on September 3, 1970 • 2 separate funerals- buried at Mount Olivett Cemetery in Middletown, NJ • 1971 inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame • Name on Super Bowl trophy • 14 foot statue now stands near main entrance to Lambeau Field “I’m not afraid to meet my God now. But what I do regret is that there is so *dang* much left to be done on earth.”

  10. BIBLIOGRAPHY • http://sports.jrank.org/pages/2890/Lombardi-Vince-Early-Years.html • http://www.bookrags.com/biography/vince-lombardi/ • http://vincelombardi.packershalloffame.com/biography/ • http://www.biography.com/people/vince-lombardi-9385362 • http://www.vincelombardi.com/

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