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.
VINCE LOMBARDILeaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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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 man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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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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One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
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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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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
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