Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
VINCE LOMBARDIWe 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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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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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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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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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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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If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
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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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The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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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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