Vince Lombardi Quotes About Coaching
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Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
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To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.
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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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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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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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And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.
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They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. 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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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!
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In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.
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I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
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Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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Hard work is the price we must pay for success
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
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