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    Coach Vince Lombardi was a legendary American football coach known for his success with the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s, winning 5 NFL championships. He is considered one of the greatest coaches in any sport. Lombardi learned 3 key leadership lessons from his father: the virtue of hard work through helping in his family's butcher shop from a young age; respect for authority as his father encouraged his love of sports; and strong mental discipline as his father preached the "triangle of success". Lombardi went on to play football at Fordham University, where his offensive line became known as the "Seven Blocks of Granite", gaining fame for their impenetrability.

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    Coach Vince Lombardi was a legendary American football coach known for his success with the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s, winning 5 NFL championships. He is considered one of the greatest coaches in any sport. Lombardi learned 3 key leadership lessons from his father: the virtue of hard work through helping in his family's butcher shop from a young age; respect for authority as his father encouraged his love of sports; and strong mental discipline as his father preached the "triangle of success". Lombardi went on to play football at Fordham University, where his offensive line became known as the "Seven Blocks of Granite", gaining fame for their impenetrability.

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    Coach Lombardi's 3 Leadership Lessons for Success

    Coach Vince Lombardi was an American football player, one of Fordham's football team's
    "Seven Blocks of Granite", head coach of the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s leading the team
    to three straight and five total NFL Championships in seven years and "winning the first two
    Super Bowls at the conclusion of the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons."

    Many experts consider Coach Lombardi "to be the greatest coach in football history, and he is
    more significantly recognized as one of the greatest coaches and teachers in the history of any
    American sport."

    The Lombardi's were devoted Catholics and attended Mass every Sunday. Vince was the oldest
    of their five children, an altar boy in their Catholic Church, and his parents expected more from
    him.

    The Lombardi children, outside their neighborhood, were subjected to "ethnic discrimination"
    against Italian immigrants that was pervasive in the culture at that time.

    David Maraniss wrote in When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi. "Harry Lombardi
    preached his triangle of success to his children-sense of duty, respect for authority and strong
    mental discipline."

    The virtue of hard work:

    At a young age, Vince, began working for his father Harry in the family butcher shop. Vince
    carried extremely heavy sides of meat and cut up the carcasses. He did not like doing this.
    Carrying around the heavy sides of meat shaped his muscles which came in handy for his
    athletics.

    Vince's father encouraged his interest in football and love of sports. He played in "sandlot
    football games" at age 12. At the age of 15 in 1928, Vince had decided to become a priest and
    enrolled at the Cathedral College of Immaculate Conception. At school, Vince played center on
    the basketball team and outfielder and catcher on the baseball team. He also continued playing
    football in pick-up games.
    He decided two years later not to become a priest and transferred to St. Francis Preparatory
    School in Brooklyn where he won a scholarship. He starred as fullback on the football team.
    Vince was "described as aggressive and powerful" playing "every minute of every game". At
    school the other students liked him and his coaches and teachers respected him and "helped him
    win a football scholarship to Fordham University."

    Fordham University "Seven Blocks of Granite":

    After graduating high school, Vince Lombardi attended Fordham University in 1933 on a
    football scholarship. Vince Lombardi was 5 feet 8, 185 pounds and stocky.

    Lombardi and his teammates were on the verge of their best season ever. Their offensive line
    quickly gained a reputation of being impenetrable, yet they needed a memorable nickname to
    rival Notre Dame's Four Horsemen. Someone mentioned that they were solid as "Seven Blocks
    of Granite" and the name stuck.

    The team didn't win the championship that year, but the nickname of Seven Blocks of Granite
    ushered that team into college football immortality.

    Vince Lombardi graduated Fordham University in 1937 with a business degree, magna cum
    laude. He then attended law school in the evenings for a semester and worked at a finance
    company during the day. Then for a year, Vince worked as a chemist. He was uninspired and
    thought about teaching and coaching. He missed being around young people.

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