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.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
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It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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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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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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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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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
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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.
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I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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