Champions make their own luck.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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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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The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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There is no substitute for work.
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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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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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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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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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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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The 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.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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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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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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