Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
VINCE LOMBARDICoaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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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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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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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.
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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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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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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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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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Champions make their own luck.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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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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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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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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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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