My Most Important Speech: "This is a Child."
One of the few speeches I've ever written and read word-for-word.
In 1961, the Green Bay Packers squandered a fourth-quarter lead and lost the NFL championship. The following year the players gathered at training camp, demoralized but ready to master new strategies and plays. Instead, their coach, Vince Lombardi, walked into the locker room holding up a pigskin and began, “Gentlemen, this is a football.”
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