Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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There is no substitute for work.
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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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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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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.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
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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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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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I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.
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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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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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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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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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If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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