Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
VINCE LOMBARDIMental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
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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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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
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If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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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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There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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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.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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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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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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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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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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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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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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