The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
VINCE LOMBARDIYou defeat defeatism with confidence.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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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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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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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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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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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’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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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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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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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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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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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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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If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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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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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 are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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