I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
VINCE LOMBARDIGentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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.
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
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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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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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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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There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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