"You defeat defeatism with confidence...." - Quote by Vince Lombardi
You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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“I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.”
“Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.”
“To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.”
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“The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.”
“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
“No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.”
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“Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”
“You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals, we can be the best. 'Spare me the grim litany of the 'realist;' give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day.”