WHAT IT TAKES TO BE NUMBER ONE
by Peter Wink
Hi Everyone,
I love the famous "What It Takes To Be Number One 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's 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 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 him has to play. Some guys play with their
heads. That's OK. You've got to 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 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. 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 - his greatest fulfillment to all he
holds dear - is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a
good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -
victorious."
Please let this speech inspire you to "keep on keeping on" no matter what you face in 2016!
Gotta run!
Until next time...
Peter
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