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.
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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
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The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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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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It 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.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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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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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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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 important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
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The 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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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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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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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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