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.
VINCE LOMBARDINobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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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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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
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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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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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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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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’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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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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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There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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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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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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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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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable.
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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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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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If 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.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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