You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.
VINCE LOMBARDISecond 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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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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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If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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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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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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