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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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.
We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.
Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.
I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline
Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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.
Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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.
In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.
If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
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.
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.
Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.
When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.
I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.
To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.
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.
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
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.
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.
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail at your job.
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.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.
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.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the 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.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
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.