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.
VINCE LOMBARDII 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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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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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If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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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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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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It 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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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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There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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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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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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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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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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