Diving into the life and greatness of the legendary football coach, Vince Lombardi from David Maraniss' book: When Pride Still Mattered

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0:00 - Winning is an all the time thing

"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 of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

2:30 - Lesson from father

“No one’s ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.”


4:25 - Playing to coaching


5:50 - What's the thing that gives you a seven-day weekend?

7:00 - The core of Lombardi's coaching philosophy

“Repetition was at the core of his coaching philosophy. Doing the same thing over and over again, whether it was a play or calisthenics”

9:30- Attention to detail

Vince Lombardi spent eight hours at a coaching clinic talking about one play.

12:30- The cost of ambition


20:30 - New York to Green Bay

“When I am done. It will be on that map.”


21:40 - Being relentless

With every fiber in my body I’ve got to make you the best football player that I can make you. And I’ll try. And I’ll try. And if I don’t succeed on the first day. I’ll try again. And I’ll try again. And you’ve got to give everything that is in you.

23:10- What's your pain tolerance

29:25 - Excellence > Winning

The mistake championship teams often make is to try to repeat their winning formula. But that rarely works because by the time the next season starts, your opponents have studied all the videos and figured out how to counter every move you made. Winning is about moving into the unknown and creating something new. It’s about that scene in the first Indiana Jones movie when someone asks Indy what he’s going to do next, and he replies, “I don’t know, I’m making it up as we go along.” That’s how I view leadership. It’s an act of controlled improvisation.

30:30 - Some coaching philosophies

36:50 - Lessons and takeaways

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