If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
VINCE LOMBARDIFootball 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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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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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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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There is no substitute for work.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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We don’t pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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.
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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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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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