No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
VINCE LOMBARDIFootball 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.
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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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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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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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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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 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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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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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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