Winners never quit and quitters never win.
VINCE LOMBARDINo leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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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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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.
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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 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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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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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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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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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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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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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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