The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
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Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
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It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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