Word: lombardis
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Among the governors of the N.F.L., such talk is heresy. They insist that football is America, manliness, work ethic, integration and Vince Lombardi saying for the thousandth time, "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." This, if it means anything at all, means that Lombardi saw a movie called Trouble Along the Way in 1953. Playing a football coach in that film, John Wayne mouthed the lines that everyone now attributes to Lombardi...
...Nicholas Lombardi, of the 78-year-old La Flamme barber shop, said yesterday that because of the competition with salons, "We're just barely making ends meet...
...hang on for a few more years, though, I think we can make it because men will come back to real haircuts," Lombardi said...
JASON MILLER'S That Championship Season was conceived of and written in the heat of the Nixon years, and the play reflects the peculiar bitter consciousness of that era. It's no accident that all the characters are ex-atheltes, bred on the same Vince Lombardi-type homilies that powered the Palace Guard...
...modern games, athletes considered the rewards worth the risks. Presaging the late Vince Lombardi's dictum that winning was the only thing, the founders of the first Olympics placed little value on participation for its own sake. There were no prizes for second and third place at Olympia; an athlete took first or nothing...