Legends stories - Vincent Thomas Lombardi

Legends stories

VINCENT THOMAS LOMBARDI

( 11/61913 - 3/91970 )

FOOTBALL COACH

Vincent Thomas"Vince" Lombardi wan an American football player, and one of the greatest coaches and executive in the American history, Born in a strict catholic household of an Italian immigrant, Lombardi represented the football team for his school as well as in the University. At St. Francis Preparatory School he starred as a fullback on the football team. At Fordham University, along with Leo Paquin, Johnny Druze , Alex Wojciechowicz, Ed Franco, Al Babartsky and Natty Pierce, he was a member of the most famous Seven  Blocks of Granite. Later he became the coach at his alma mater, Fordham University, He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to win several championships. Later he also coached Washington Redskins in 1969, As a head coach in National Football League, he never had a losing season. After his death, Lombardi was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
• Once a man has made this commitment, nothing with shop him short of success. It's something we call heart power.
• Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
• If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
• Leadership is based on a spiritual quality -  the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
• If you are lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
• I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.
• Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidance, and a customer will recognize both.
• I derived my strenght from daily mass and communion.
• To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.
• Moraly, the lufe of the organization must be exemplary nature