Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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Champions make their own luck.
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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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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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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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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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The 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.
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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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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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