When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
VINCE LOMBARDIWhen you are through trying to improve, you are through.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIChoose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
VINCE LOMBARDIOnce you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
VINCE LOMBARDIYou 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 LOMBARDIWinning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIndividual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
VINCE LOMBARDIBeat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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.
VINCE LOMBARDIMental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIt is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
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