Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.
VINCE LOMBARDIWe 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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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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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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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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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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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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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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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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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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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