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.
VINCE LOMBARDISome need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
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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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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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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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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Champions make their own luck.
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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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There is no substitute for work.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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