Saint Vincent on Leadership

Well -- maybe that's a stretch to call him a saint -- but he certainly is a legend in Cheesehead country. My good friend, and District Superintendent, Dan Bickel recently sent these quotes from "The Coach":

Vince Lombardi, the legendary Green Bay coach, had some good things to say. In the book The Lombardi Rules (26 Lessons from Vince Lombardi, the world’s greatest coach) by Vince Lombardi Jr. shares some thoughts and quotes from his dad. Here are some of those quotes:

· The difference (between a good coach and an average coach) is knowing what you want, and knowing what the end is supposed to look like. If a coach doesn’t know what the end is supposed to look like, he won’t know it when he sees it.

· If you cheat on the practice field, you’ll cheat in the game. If you cheat in the game, you’ll cheat the rest of your life.

· The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group (he leads). If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

· You gotta remember one thing: If you’re going to exercise authority, you’ve got to respect it.

· 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.