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 LOMBARDIMany more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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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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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.
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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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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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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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It 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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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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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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