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.
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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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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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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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.
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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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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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