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.
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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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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There is no substitute for work.
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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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If you really want something , you can have it if you’re willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
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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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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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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 good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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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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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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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.
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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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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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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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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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