The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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Champions make their own luck.
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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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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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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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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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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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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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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.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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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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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
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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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