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.
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.
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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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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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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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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Football isn’t a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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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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Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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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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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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