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.
VINCE LOMBARDIPractice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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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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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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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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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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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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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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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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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
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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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