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.
VINCE LOMBARDIOnce you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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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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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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There is no substitute for work.
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The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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