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 LOMBARDIWinning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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Champions make their own luck.
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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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Once 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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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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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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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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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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Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
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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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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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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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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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