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 LOMBARDIEveryone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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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If you really want something , you can have it if you’re willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
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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 measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
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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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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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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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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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