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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf 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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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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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Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
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We don’t pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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