If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
VINCE LOMBARDISecond 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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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If you really want something , you can have it if you’re willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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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 a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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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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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 good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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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