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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIt’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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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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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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One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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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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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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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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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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