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.
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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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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I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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Champions make their own luck.
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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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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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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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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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There is no substitute for work.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
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One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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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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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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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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Gentlemen, 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.
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