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 LOMBARDIDon’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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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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If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
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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 real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
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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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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
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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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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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There is no substitute for work.
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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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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’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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