The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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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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Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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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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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.
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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 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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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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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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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Leaders 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.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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