If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe joy is in creating, not maintaining.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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 achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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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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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
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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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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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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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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.
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