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 LOMBARDIDictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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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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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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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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We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.
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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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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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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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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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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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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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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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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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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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