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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThey do not truly love who do not show their love.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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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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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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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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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
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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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Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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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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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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