Vince Lombardi, 45, who for the last five years has been in charge of the New York Giants’ offense, Wednesday was named general manager and coach of the Green Bay Packers. He has a five year contract.
Lombardi, a guard on Fordham University’s “seven blocks of granite” line in the middle 1930s, had never before been head coach above the high school level.
“My word will be final,” Lombardi said Thursday morning in New York. “I’ve never been connected with a losing team and I hope to instill a winning spirit in the Packers in a lot less than five years.”
The terms of Lombardi’s contract were not revealed.
Chuck Johnson of the Milwaukee Journal began his January 28, 1959 article with those words. Do you recall how Vince performed as head coach of the Packers? His final record was an impressive 89-29-4. More importantly, his Packers won three NFL Championships and the first two Super Bowls.
Lombardi was quite a coach. We also have quite a few memorable lines from him I thought might be enjoyable to read as we approach this year’s Super Bowl.
“Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.”
“If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.”
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
“Autograph your work with excellence.”
“It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.”
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
“If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.”
And, finally, one I really love:
“There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.”
Standing outside of Lambeau Field:
https://archive.jsonline.com/sports/packers/164346156.html/
https://www.azquotes.com/author/8997-Vince_Lombardi
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