Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.
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There is no substitute for work.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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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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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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If you really want something , you can have it if you’re willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
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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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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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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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