Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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There is no substitute for work.
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I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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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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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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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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Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
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Champions make their own luck.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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