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The Will To Win Speech

Published on July 19, 2018

John Lame
CEO Lenox Wealth and UNTAPPED | Fund a Life 5 articles Follow
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I am sharing this speech today. Tony Robbins referred to it in his

weekend retreat that I attended in Chicago. I grew up in a family,
where my father lost his will to win. It began with his career, then
spread to his marriage, and eventually hit the family culture.

My aspiration is to make sure this does not happen to other

families.

Think about this speech. Have you lost your will to win? Are you on
a winning team? Are you bringing a winning culture back to you
and you family?

If you want to know more, please contact me at

(fundalifeyoulove.com). Please don't settle.

The Will To Win Speech

By Vince Lombardi

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 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 is only one place in my game, and

that’s first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay,

and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl

game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and 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 got to play from the

ground up – from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of
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be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got

to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re 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.

Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of

organization – an army, a political party or a business. The principles are

the same. The object is to win – to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds

hard or 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 are there – to compete.

To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to

win fairly, squarely, by the rules – but to win.

And in truth, 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. There

is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh

reality of head to head combat.

I don’t say these things because I believe in the “brute” nature of man or

that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe

in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the

greatest fulfillment of all that 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.

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Trey Morriss (Colonel USAF - Retired) 11mo

Senior Executive | Speaker | Teacher | Coach

Great speech from a great leader - Coach Lombardi.  One of the best descriptions of person's "finest
hour"..."that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of
battle - victorious."  It's a two minute read with a profound return.
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