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.
VINCE LOMBARDIWe didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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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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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.
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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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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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Champions make their own luck.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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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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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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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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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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