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.
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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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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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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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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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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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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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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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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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 strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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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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