The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
VINCE LOMBARDIMental toughness is essential to success.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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Champions make their own luck.
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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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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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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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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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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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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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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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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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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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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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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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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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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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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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