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.
VINCE LOMBARDILive as if you were living already for the second time.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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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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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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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 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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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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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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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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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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You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.
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There is no substitute for work.
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If you really want something , you can have it if you’re willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
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