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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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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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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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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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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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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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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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There is no substitute for work.
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