Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
VINCE LOMBARDICoaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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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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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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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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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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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.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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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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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Mental 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.
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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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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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