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Winners Vs. Losers
When a winner makes a mistake, he says, "I was wrong;"
When a loser makes a mistake, he says, "It wasn't my fault."
A winner works harder than a loser and has more time;
A loser is always "too busy" to do what is necessary.
A winner goes through a problem;
A loser goes around it, and never gets past it.
A winner makes commitments;
A loser makes promises.
A winner says, "I'm good, but not as good as I ought to be:"
A loser says, "I'm not as bad as a lot of other people."
A winner listens;
A loser just waits until it's his turn to talk.
A winner respects those who are superior to him and tries to learn something from them;
A loser resents those who are superior to him and tries to find chinks in their armor.
A winner feels responsible for more than his job;
A loser says, "I only work here."
A winner says, "There ought to be a better way to do it;"
A loser says, "That's the way it's always been done here"
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Famous Quotes
Author: Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit"
Author: Bruce Lee
"The greatest mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement;
you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or in defeat.
Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment."
"Knowing is not enough, you must apply.
Willing is not enough, you must do."
Author: Dick Vermeil
If you don't invest very much,
Then defeat doesn't hurt very much,
And Winning is not very exciting.
Author: General Douglas McArthur
"Preparation and Execution
are the Keys to Victory and Success"
Author: Freebism
Almost means not quite. Not quite means not right.
Not right means wrong. Wrong means the opportunity to
Start over again, more intelligently, and get it right.
Author: General George S. Patton
"Accept the challenge
So you can feel the exhilaration
Of Victory!"
Author: Vince Lombardi
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
Author: - Cited in Lombardi, 1973 page 16
"It is not the critic that counts. The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena…who strives valiantly, who errs and often comes up short again and again…who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Author: John Wooden (College Basketball Coach)
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
Author: Sun Tzu - The Art of War
"One who is weak must prepare against his enemy.
One who is strong makes his enemy prepare against him."
Author: Chinese Proverbs
"The more you sweat in peace,
the less you bleed in war."
Miscellaneous Authors
Author: Scott Pilkey
"If you go through life with the underdog mentality,
you will never be champion, only the spoiler of the day."
The authors of the following
quotes are unknown.
"The difference between good and great is determined
by what you do when the lights are off."
"If at the end of the play, the man you blocked is still standing,
there's room for improvement"
-Text on the Southwest corner of Memorial Stadium Lincoln, Nebraska.
"Not the victory but the action;
Not the goal but the game;
In the deed is the glory."
Pain, is as essential to life as your breath. If you feel pain you
have a perfect realization that you are still alive. If you are still
alive then you will grow from pain and know assuredly that you can overcome.
"When BETTER is possible,
Then GOOD is not enough."
I searched for glory...and glory I did not see.
I searched for victory...and victory eluded me.
I searched for TEAMWORK and found all three!!!
"Obstacles are what people see when
they take their eyes off of their dreams."
"If you score, you may win
but if they don't score, you can't lose"
The difference between good and great is determined
by what you do when the lights are off."
"If at the end of the play, the man you blocked is still standing,
there's room for improvement"
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