As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
VINCE LOMBARDIBeat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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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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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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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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There is no substitute for work.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
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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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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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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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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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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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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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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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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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