Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
VINCE LOMBARDIPerfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
VINCE LOMBARDIFootball 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIMost important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
VINCE LOMBARDINobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
VINCE LOMBARDIChoose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
VINCE LOMBARDIYou defeat defeatism with confidence.
VINCE LOMBARDIWinning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
VINCE LOMBARDIWe 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
VINCE LOMBARDIMost people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
VINCE LOMBARDILeadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you can accept losing, you can’t win.
VINCE LOMBARDIMental 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 LOMBARDIBeat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
VINCE LOMBARDIUnless 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIDon’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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