Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
VINCE LOMBARDIIf you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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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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Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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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 joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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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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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