The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
VINCE LOMBARDIMental toughness is essential to success.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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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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It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
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One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
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If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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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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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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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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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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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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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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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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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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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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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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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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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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