If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
VINCE LOMBARDILeadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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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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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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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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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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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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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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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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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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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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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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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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If you really want something , you can have it if you’re willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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Champions make their own luck.
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