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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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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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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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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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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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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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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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 only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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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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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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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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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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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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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