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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThere’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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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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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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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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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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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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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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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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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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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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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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You 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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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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