It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
VINCE LOMBARDII firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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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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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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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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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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Champions make their own luck.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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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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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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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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