Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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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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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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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.
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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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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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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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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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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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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
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There is no substitute for work.
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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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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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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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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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If you get into the endzone, act as if you’ve been there before.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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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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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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