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.
VINCE LOMBARDISuccess rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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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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If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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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 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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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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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.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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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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