The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
VINCE LOMBARDIA man can be as great as he wants to be.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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 winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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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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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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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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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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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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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
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There is no substitute for work.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
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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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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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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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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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I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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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.
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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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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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