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 LOMBARDIIf you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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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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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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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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There is no substitute for work.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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