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.
VINCE LOMBARDIWe 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIFootball 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIMental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
VINCE LOMBARDIChampions make their own luck.
VINCE LOMBARDIGentlemen, 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIt 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.
VINCE LOMBARDISome need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
VINCE LOMBARDISuccess 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThose who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
VINCE LOMBARDII 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIFatigue makes cowards of us all.
VINCE LOMBARDIThey do not truly love who do not show their love.
VINCE LOMBARDIBeat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
VINCE LOMBARDIUnless 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIOffensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.
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