You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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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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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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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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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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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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There is no substitute for work.
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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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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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