One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
VINCE LOMBARDIIt 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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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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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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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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Champions make their own luck.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
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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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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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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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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
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