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.
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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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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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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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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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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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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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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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