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“Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.”
“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.”
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
“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.”
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
“Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.”
“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?”
“Success demands singleness of purpose.”
“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.”
“The will to win is the only thing.”
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
“We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”