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According to the late James Michener's Sports in America, Lombardi claimed to have been misquoted. What he intended to say was "Winning isn't everything. The will to win is the only thing." [8] However, Lombardi is on record repeating the original version of the quotation on several occasions. [9]
Mar 13, 2017 · In this respect we’re reminded of the sage remarks of UCLA’s Red Sanders He says winning isn’t the only thing—that it is everything. In 1954 another football coach employed the proverb in the pages of “The Washington Post”: [14] 1954 September 14, The Washington Post, Skins Given Big Welcome by Jack Walsh, Quote Page 41, Column 5, Washington, D.C. (ProQuest)
Jul 12, 2010 · "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." This infamous quote, often attributed to Vince Lombardi, actually orginated with college football coach Red Saunders, though Lombardi did say it as ...
Oct 23, 2013 · Many adults believe winning is the most important thing to kids. But our research provided convincing evidence that refutes this myth. ... Winning isn’t everything, nor is it the only thing.
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“The key is not the will to win… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.”
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
“It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.”
“At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.”
“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
“Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.”
“We play a sport. It’s a game. At the end of the day, that’s all it is, is a game. It doesn’t make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you’re no better. By losing a game, you’re no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.”
“I never did say that you can’t be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up.”
- Luke Kerr-Dineen
Feb 1, 2015 · Lombardi’s thoughts on winning touch on some of the most complicated dilemmas that human beings have. He actually wasn’t the first to say his famously attributed quote, “Winning isn’t ...
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Oct 5, 2017 · And the objective is to win—fairly, squarely, decently, by the rules, but to win. … Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence and to victory; even though we know complete victory cannot be attained, it must be pursued with all one’s might. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the ...
