Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
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.
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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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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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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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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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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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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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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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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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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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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.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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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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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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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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A man can be as great as he wants to be.
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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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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