It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
VINCE LOMBARDIGentlemen, 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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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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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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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There is no substitute for work.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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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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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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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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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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