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.
VINCE LOMBARDIPraise in public; criticize in private.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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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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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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If 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.
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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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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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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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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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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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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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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 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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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