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.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.
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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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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
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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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