lack of pride

Unseld described what Caldwell-Pope called a lack of pride as lapses in focus, getting bored with doing the right things over and over again.

Despite the team’s efforts to address complaints about the stadium — adding local restaurants, reconfiguring the parking lot, re-turfing the field to reduce the probability of injury — some fans can’t shake the lack of pride they feel.

Rocky Bleier, the Vietnam veteran turned running back who won four Super Bowl rings as part of the Super Steelers dynasty of the 1970s, chastised the current group for a "lack of pride and self-esteem."

Rocky Bleier, the Vietnam veteran turned running back who won four Super Bowl rings as part of the Super Steelers dynasty of the 1970s, chastised the current group for a “lack of pride and self-esteem.”

"What I can’t understand is why. It’s not that losing bothers me as much as lack of pride or self-esteem. How do you give up 82 points in the last two games? How do you, in the words of Mike Tomlin, get beat up front and both sides of the ball?"