Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
VINCE LOMBARDIThe 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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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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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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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I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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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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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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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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