As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.
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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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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
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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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Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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