If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
VINCE LOMBARDIAs soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
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Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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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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You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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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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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 joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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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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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 harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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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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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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