Winning Quotes

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh"ﾂ蚤lso if I win.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are.

There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long,

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

The individual in the framework and in the service of his race, the race in the framework and in the service of God and of the laws of the divinity: those who will understand these things will win even though they are alone. Those who will not understand will be defeated.

You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.

You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

The key isn't winning — or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be — but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is — but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.

Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.

Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

Maxim 20: If you're not willing to shell your own position, you're not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.

Im winning races, Im still challenging for the world championships, the team is fantastic and I have a great relationship with everybody here - so why would I want to even consider changing?

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. "ﾂ韮obby Goodspeed

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.

Inside the first 20 to 25 games of the season, we were losing these games, getting beat by two and three points. Over the last 10 games, it seems like we're starting to win these games and putting some good things together.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.

I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

He who gets the best players usually wins.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.

When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are risking their lives under hostile fire in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe.

Let's just win it and go home.

In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.

Winning is like sex, the more you do it, the more you like it.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

I'm playing this game because I'm blessed and want to help this team win the Super Bowl, ... At the same time, I want to be considered the best safety that has ever played the game.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

Winning is the science of being totally prepared

If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart...

It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Winning in my business is everything.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

You will never win if you never begin.

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

You can't rely just on talent to win.

GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

Football players win football games.

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior is geared only to struggle, and every struggle is a warrior's last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him. In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wages his battle, knowing that his intent is impeccable, a warrior laughs and laughs.

Who longest wait of all surely wins.

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

You cannot win if you cannot run.

I will always cherish the times at JGR. The only thing that I regret is that we didn't win more races and/or championships.

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.