You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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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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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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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.
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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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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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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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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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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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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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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 joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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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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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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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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Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.
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