If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
VINCE LOMBARDIIt 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
VINCE LOMBARDISecond 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 LOMBARDIMost people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
VINCE LOMBARDIErrors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
VINCE LOMBARDINo leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
VINCE LOMBARDILife’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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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 LOMBARDIThey do not truly love who do not show their love.
VINCE LOMBARDIWatch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
VINCE LOMBARDIOffensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
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