Outside the Walls: Relentless Pursuit

The 1958 Green Bay Packers were a bunch of losers. They only won one game the entire season. The program was in shambles, the coach was fired, and there wasn’t much hope for the future. The owner decided to take a chance on a guy who had never been a head coach of an NFL team.

The Packers were called together for a meeting, and the door in the back of the room swung open. The new coach walked straight to the podium, and the team wondered who this guy was. Quarterback Bart Starr recalled the story in an ESPN documentary.

“The coach looked at us and said, ‘Men, we will relentlessly pursue perfection, knowing full well we will never attain it. But, in the journey, we will find greatness.’ ”

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