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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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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The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable.
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