While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
VINCE LOMBARDIOne comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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Champions make their own luck.
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Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
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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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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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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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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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