1950's - Vince Lombardi's \"What it takes to be #1\"
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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you have got to pay the price. Winning is not a sometime thing. It's in all the time thing. You don't win once in a while and you don't do things right. Once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. There is no room for second place. There's only one place in my game, and that's first place. I finished second twice in my time in Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it's a game for losers played by losers. It isn't always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do and to win and to win and to win every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's gotta play from the ground up from the soles of his feet, right up to his head. Every inch of them has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've gotta play with your heart with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head in a lot of heart. He's never gonna come off the field. Second, running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization an army, a political party or a business principles of the same. The objective is to win to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds harder. Cruel. I don't think it is. It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they're there to compete. The objective is to win fairly squarely by the rules, but to win. And in truth, I have never known a man worth his salt, who in the long run deep down in his heart didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head dad combat. I don't say these things because I believe in the brute nature of men or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that in any man's finest hour, his greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious.