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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThere is no substitute for work.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
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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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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
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The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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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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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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