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.
VINCE LOMBARDIPerfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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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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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
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Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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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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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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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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