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Around Town: Pat Richter tells UW grads to learn from greatness of loss

At UW-Madison?s winter commencement ceremony Sunday, former Athletic Director Pat Richter cleared up one of legendary football coach Vince Lombardi?s famous quotes. ?He?s been misquoted as saying, ?Winning isn?t everything, it?s the only thing.? But what he really said was, ?Winning isn?t everything, wanting to win is.? There?s a tremendous difference,? Richter said during his speech to graduates at the Kohl Center.

UW interim chancellor David Ward started the graduation ceremony by asking for a minute of silence for the people of Newtown, Conn., two days after a massacre at an elementary school there.