The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Champions make their own luck.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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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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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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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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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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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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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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Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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