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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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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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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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