Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
VINCE LOMBARDIPraise in public; criticize in private.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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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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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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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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We don’t pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.
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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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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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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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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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Champions make their own luck.
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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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