Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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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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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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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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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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