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.
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.
Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.
Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.
I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
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.
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.
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Winning is not the most important thing; it's everything.
You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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.
If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.
Hard work is the price we must pay for success
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.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.
Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.
Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge.
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