"Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult……" — Vince Lombardi
"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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Vince Lombardi
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201 Quotes by Vince Lombardi
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It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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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…
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I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.
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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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To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of…
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Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing…
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Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect…
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While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.
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