Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
VINCE LOMBARDII’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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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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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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 joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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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 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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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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The 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.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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