It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
VINCE LOMBARDIIt’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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 measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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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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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
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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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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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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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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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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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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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