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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIt’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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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 derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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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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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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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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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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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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