Gentlemen, 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIFootball isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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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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You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.
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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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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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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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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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