No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
VINCE LOMBARDILife’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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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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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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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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Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.
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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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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 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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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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