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 only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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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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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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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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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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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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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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We don’t pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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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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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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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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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 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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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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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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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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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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There is no substitute for work.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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