If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Winners never quit and quitters never 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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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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.
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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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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
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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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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 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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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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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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Champions make their own luck.
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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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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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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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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