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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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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Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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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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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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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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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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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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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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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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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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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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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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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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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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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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