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.
VINCE LOMBARDIWhen you are through trying to improve, you are through.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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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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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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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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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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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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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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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
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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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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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