Praise in public; criticize in private.
VINCE LOMBARDIWe will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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There is no substitute for work.
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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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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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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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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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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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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.
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If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
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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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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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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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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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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.
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