Vince Lombardi

What sets the great athletes apart from the rest is failure, and how they handle it. An optimist athlete uses the failure as a learning experience, and grows from it. Vince Lombardi said, “It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.” I have failed in every way in hockey, and in other sports, but that’s what set me apart from the other athletes. I took failures personally, and attacked them at full speed…

To me I always thought it was about inspiring others to work towards a common goal while respecting each person role. I did not know that there was two different types of love; the first that Mr. Hunter gathers from Vince Lombardi is that “Lombardi clearly understood the distinction between the love of feeling (emotion) and the love of the will (volition). (Hunter, 2004, pp. 84-85) This was the first time that I had thought of love in this context, because I knew when I worked with…

Competition “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to is.(”Vince Lombardi) being competitive can shape a man on his growth.It pushes a person to get better as he face new people each and everyday. People with a rival are best in competitions. They face people who have equal or higher skill levels than them. If people wasn’t for competition some people would me lazy and maybe overweight. If a person wants to get good at something than the best the way to test your skill is to compete and see…

leadership demands constant evaluation as each situation requires different leadership tactics. Vince Lombardi once stated, “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence”. He also said, “Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any other goal”. These words from Coach Lombardi reaffirm the need to constantly work at the craft of leadership. Leadership…

As I sat anxiously in my desk the last day of high school, I felt compelled and overwhelmed to decide what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I knew I wanted to pursue a career in healthcare because of my mother, who was a registered nurse. Witnessing the love and care my mother had for every patient even when she was not on the clock really inspired the drive for me to impact the lives of others just as I saw her do. Although after I shadowed one of my mother’s colleagues, I knew I could…

. While many different leadership theories have developed, the Trait Theories, such as the Great Man Theories, suggest that leaders are born and not made, whereas the Behavioural, Situational Theories and Interactional theories suggest the opposite. These will help to analyse the question and try to determine if leaders have specific traits, if certain environmental factors produce leaders or if leaders possess a combination of both inherent qualities and learned behaviours. The qualities of…

world at something, that they deserve praise and success just like the athletes. People get angry because it’s not them that are in that position. Too much blame is put on the athletes, and it isn’t really fair. One famous football player named Vince Lombardi once said that “Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal” (Megliofitness 1). Athletes don’t get into the…

The History and Structure of the Inside Football League “Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time,” (Lombardi 2010). Vince Lombardi said this to his players while getting ready for the 1970 NFC Championship game. Like winning, football is an all the time thing that happens year round, whether one is training as an athlete for the regular season or is a spectator of the game, football is a major part…

In American Football you have many different phases of the game. Defense is one of those phases. In earliest decades of football competition pro football coaches stacked the line with approximately nine-seven and six defense fronts to stop opponents from heavy running of their day. In the 1940s, in National Football League (also known as NFL) coach name Greasy Neale alter the nine-seven-six defense into five man fronts and four men secondary that was successful in defending the run and pass. By…

Each mental skills training lesson will briefly review three essential topics from the past lessons. In addition, each lesson will also intertwine other elements of sport psychology mental training tools and skills with the current topic. For example, the goal setting lesson will include elements of imagery, self-talk, and self-regulation in the discussion regarding how to set goals. Goals need to have specific implementation plans, be used in practice, and be used in combination with other…