Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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.
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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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Champions make their own luck.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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There is no substitute for work.
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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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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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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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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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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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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 measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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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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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
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If 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.
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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
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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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