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.
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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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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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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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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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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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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Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
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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 leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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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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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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