Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
VINCE LOMBARDIYou carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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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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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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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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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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.
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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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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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Champions make their own luck.
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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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