Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
VINCE LOMBARDISuccess demands singleness of purpose.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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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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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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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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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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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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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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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.
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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.
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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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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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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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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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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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