The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
VINCE LOMBARDISuccess 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.
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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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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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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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
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Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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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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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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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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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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