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.
VINCE LOMBARDISecond 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe joy is in creating, not maintaining.
VINCE LOMBARDIPraise in public; criticize in private.
VINCE LOMBARDIIt’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
VINCE LOMBARDICoaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
VINCE LOMBARDIIndividual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
VINCE LOMBARDIWinners never quit and quitters never win.
VINCE LOMBARDII’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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIt’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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable.
VINCE LOMBARDIPractice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe 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.
VINCE LOMBARDISuccess 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.
VINCE LOMBARDIWe didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
VINCE LOMBARDIThere is no substitute for work.
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