If 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 LOMBARDIWhile statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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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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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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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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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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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Life’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.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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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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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I 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.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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There is no substitute for work.
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