There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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 only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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Champions make their own luck.
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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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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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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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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’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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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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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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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