A man can be as great as he wants to be.
VINCE LOMBARDIWatch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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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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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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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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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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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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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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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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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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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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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 derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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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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