If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
VINCE LOMBARDIMental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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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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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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I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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There is no substitute for work.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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Champions make their own luck.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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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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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 challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
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