The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
VINCE LOMBARDIOne’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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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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There is no substitute for work.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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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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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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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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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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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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 strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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.
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If you really want something , you can have it if you’re willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
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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’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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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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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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