Written by 홍송희
Not long ago, there was a legend who had left lasting footprints in the history of American football. His name is Vince Lombardi, born in 1913 to a father, who was Italian immigrant working as a butcher. His mother was a daughter of a barber who came to America from Italy when she was a high school student. 
In 1959, at age 45, Vince Lombardi took the position of Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers. At that time, Green Bay Packers had only one win. In his second year, Lombardi led the Packers to the 1960 NFL championship game, but lost the game as the time expired. After the loss, Lombardi proclaimed that Green Bay Packers will never lose a game under his command. He won his next nine post-season games including three consecutive NFL championship games and first two super bowl games.
He died of cancer at age 57 in 1970. Super bowl commission commemorated him and made the decision to get his name inscribed in Super bowl Trophies. Nixson wanted him to be his running mate; however he was a democrat. Lombardi time" is the principle that one should arrive 10-15 minutes early, or else be considered late. To the contrary, Korean time means one should not be arriving on time. Unless 30 minutes late, one is considered not important.
Vince Lombardi was also a powerful motivational speaker. He made a numerous speeches. Here is a n excerpt f his famous speech , called what it takes to be no. 1.
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
"Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization — an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win — to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.
"It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men.
"And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.
"I don't say these things because I believe in the "brute" nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle — victorious.“
The winning record like Lombardi’s is rare but not unprecedented. We can find the 
seemingly impossible winning record in Bible and well as in Korean history. Joshua won every battles except for one when he led his people to Canaan after Mose died. Yi Sun Shin also won every battles against much larger Japanese’ navy. His principle is to fight that can be won and to avoid one that is to be lost. However he fought, he fought with all his heart and was not afraid of dying.Once someone said, “if we are on God’s side, we always win. So let us pray that we are on God’s side rather than God is to be on our side.
In all this, I thought about the power of decision making by one person vs. that by many people. I think it is possible that one person can be on God’s side. So, the decision made by leaders, generals and executives can be really powerful. However, I believe it is never and every possible that many people at the same time are on God’s side. Thus, the ship controlled by many captains are doomed to be lost. So, the Jews wanted to have a King.
