When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
VINCE LOMBARDIMost important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
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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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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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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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I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.
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Champions make their own luck.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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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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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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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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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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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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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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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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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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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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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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