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Last Updated: Thursday, May 25th, 2000 |
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What It Takes To Be No. 1 Winning is not a sometimes thing, its 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 want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for 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 apply his trade he has got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads, that's O.K. You have got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you have got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If your lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he is 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 principals 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 into the game. The object 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 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 mans finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he is exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. - Vincent Lombardi -
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