I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
VINCE LOMBARDIChoose 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 spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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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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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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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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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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