Wanting to win.

on Apr 13 in Culture, Random tagged by Peter Blackman

I’ve been doing a lot of work with a semi-professional rugby sevens team over the last few weeks. Helping them out with branding, sponsorship and marketing. It’s been fun. It also reminded me of some quotes from the legendary American Football coach Vince Lombardi.

Take it away Vince….

“It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you’ve got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not yet a winner.”

“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that 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.”

and finally, the one which is often misquoted as ‘winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing’……

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is”

You can find more of his wit and wisdom here.

We’ll be launching the Sevens team over on the Double Art site very soon. It’s made me want to play rugby again. Even at 40, the itch never quite goes away to have a run out, clatter into someone, and as Vince puts it, work your heart until you lie exhausted on the field.