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Best Quotes About Winning (Top 100)
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King -
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. Seuss -
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
Adolf Hitler -
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
Shel Silverstein -
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win;Nor try to conquer any worldExcept the one within.
Louisa May Alcott -
Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!
Swami Vivekananda -
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde -
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi -
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire -
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel -
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Guess you lose some & win some, long as the outcome is income.
Drake -
A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
Napoleon Hill -
Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and-above all- apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.
Erwin Rommel -
The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win
Miyamoto Musashi -
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Charles Baudelaire -
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
Neal Stephenson -
Born to lose. Live to win.
Lemmy Kilmister -
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
Ho Chi Minh -
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar -
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.
Richard Bach -
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Queen Victoria -
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush -
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
Miguel de Unamuno -
The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.
Harold S. Kushner -
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird -
She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.
Naomi Wolf -
They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
Katherine Dunn -
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi -
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
Louis XIV -
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi -
But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.
Meb Keflezighi -
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
Tommy Lasorda -
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Casey Stengel -
Men fight wars. Women win them.
Elizabeth I -
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi -
You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
Lauren Bacall -
You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
Neil Peart -
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
Albert Payson Terhune -
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold -
The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
Eric Ries -
Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.
Sean Covey -
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
Clay Aiken -
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley -
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
Joseph Brodsky -
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
Howard Zinn -
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon -
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie -
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Abraham Kuyper -
Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.
Thomas Malory -
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
Angela Merici -
For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
Emmitt Smith -
If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
Andre Agassi -
A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.
Eric Berne -
Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.
Adam Young -
Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second. Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It's that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr -
The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.
Chuck Noll -
Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
Bum Phillips -
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi -
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden -
People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!
Bob Uecker -
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
Vin Scully -
You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race
David Bowie -
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
Fred Perry -
The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu -
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
Jack Kemp -
I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.
Charlie Sheen -
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Billie Holiday -
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
Satchel Paige -
Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
Bill Rodgers -
Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn’t the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don’t do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.
Dave Ramsey -
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
Larry Bird -
We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here.
Al Davis -
I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.
Al Davis -
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.
Boris Becker -
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
Damon Hill -
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Chuck Noll -
A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.
Andrew Shue -
No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.
Bill Parcells -
I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your government and I'm willing to bet that in some elections, 'None of the Above' would win. Imagine if you won the election but lost to 'None of the Above'. Wouldn't that make you re-think your positions?
Jesse Ventura -
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King -
Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
Bart Starr -
How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
Bum Phillips -
You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.
Lee Westwood -
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe -
No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
Oriana Fallaci -
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
Ben Hogan -
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Emile Coue -
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc -
If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.
Cheryl Strayed -
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll -
A winning effort begins with preparation.
Joe Gibbs -
at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.
John Madden -
It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large gains.
Max Gunther -
There is winning and there is misery.
Bill Parcells -
No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
Billie Jean King
Even More Winning Quotes
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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.
Althea Gibson -
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.
Charles L. Allen -
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.
Jean Webster -
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.
John Cage -
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia Earhart -
The determination to win is the better part of winning.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos -
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.
Douglas Malloch -
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.
Gene Kranz -
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.
Charles Dickens -
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.
Robert Collier -
As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long,
Sania Mirza -
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.
Alfred Hitchcock -
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
James Allen -
From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
Pat Riley -
You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.
Jeannette Walls -
The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
Chuck Noll -
You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt -
When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.
Bryce Courtenay -
He who keeps his cool best wins.
Norman Cousins -
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
Lance Armstrong -
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
Arthur Ashe -
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Gary Player -
A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.
Wilhelm Steinitz -
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.
Desiderius Erasmus -
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.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu -
You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
Roger Ailes -
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.
Andre Agassi -
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.
Hans Christian Andersen -
It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.
Bjarne Stroustrup -
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.
Anita Brookner -
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.
Chris Evert -
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
Richard DeVos -
Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
Alan Shearer -
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.
Wilma Rudolph -
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.
Bud Wilkinson -
If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
Bjorn Borg -
We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.
Xabi Alonso -
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.
Damon Hill -
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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Al McGuire -
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
Catfish Hunter -
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.
Chris Claremont -
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.
Dave Ramsey -
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.
Luis Palau -
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
Bill Tilden -
I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
Yogi Berra -
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
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
Howard Tayler -
I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
Barry Sanders -
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
Jimmy Connors -
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver -
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.
Emil Zatopek -
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.
Vince Lombardi -
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.
Dara Torres -
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.
Jamie Foxx -
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
Pete Sampras -
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.
Annie Besant -
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.
Althea Gibson -
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.
Benjamin Haydon -
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
Frederick William Robertson -
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.
Hesiod -
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
Frank Abagnale -
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.
Alain Prost -
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.
Carl Hubbell -
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.
Brent Musburger -
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
Anatole Broyard -
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz -
To win you've got to stay in the game.
Claude M. Bristol -
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.
Gene Autry -
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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
Richard M. Nixon -
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?
Lane Kirkland -
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
Lois McMaster Bujold -
In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
F. Lee Bailey -
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.
Vince Lombardi -
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.
Tom Osborne -
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?
Kimi Raikkonen -
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.
Tim Wise -
I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.
George Foreman -
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
James Howe -
Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.
Hubert Green -
¨ 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?¨
Joseph Heller -
You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.
Shahrukh Khan -
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
Tom Wilson -
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.
Ted Turner -
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.
John Mason Brown -
It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
Jerry Della Femina -
You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.
Frank Leahy -
Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
Bear Bryant -
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Polybius -
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.
George Gilder -
If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
Carl Hubbell -
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.
Patrick O'Brian -
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.
Ray Allen -
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
Abdoulaye Wade -
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
Anthony Trollope -
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
Bill Veeck -
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.
Francis Picabia -
He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
Henry Drummond -
When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
Randy Johnson -
I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.
Al Davis -
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
Earl Weaver -
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.
Dan Castellaneta -
Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do
Albert Gray -
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
Allan Sherman -
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.
Ben Nelson -
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.
Leo Durocher -
Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.
Chi Chi Rodriguez -
Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
Beah Richards -
He who gets the best players usually wins.
Bobby Bowden -
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles -
Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.
Amy Alcott -
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.
Adam Gilchrist -
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
Gary McCord -
We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.
Joe Namath -
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
Jesse Owens -
To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.
Julius Erving -
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
Al McGuire -
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.
George Brett -
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.
Patty Murray -
Let's just win it and go home.
Barry Sanders -
In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.
John Madden -
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
Earl Weaver -
Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.
Phil Rizzuto -
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley -
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.
Vince Lombardi -
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.
Anita Brookner -
Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.
Thomas Kyd -
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.
Joaquin Miller -
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.
George Sanders -
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Lord Hailsham -
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.
David J. Schwartz -
Winning is like sex, the more you do it, the more you like it.
Felix Sabates -
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Charles Buxton -
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.
Fannie Hurst -
You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.
Freddy Adu -
Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.
Billy Donovan -
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
Carol Ann Duffy -
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.
Brian Dawkins -
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver -
If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.
Bobby Moore -
Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
Frank Dane -
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.
Gerald Early -
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
George Herbert -
If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
Bruce Jenner -
Winning is the science of being totally prepared
George Allen -
If you've got talent, stick with it... because talent wins out, without a doubt.
Bobby Sherman -
Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.
George Allen -
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
Chuck Tanner -
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.
Dwight Gooden -
There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart...
Cesar Chavez -
It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.
Joey Logano -
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Zig Ziglar -
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.
Max Planck -
Winning in my business is everything.
Al Unser -
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell -
For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
Owen Arthur -
You will never win if you never begin.
Helen Rowland -
It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
Andre Agassi -
Let's win one for the Gipper.
Knute Rockne -
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
Alex Trebek -
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.
Winston Churchill -
You can't rely just on talent to win.
Scott Young -
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.
Al Green -
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
Charles Peguy -
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!
Kelly Clarkson -
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.
Chuck Tanner -
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.
Billy Bob Thornton -
If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
Dick Vermeil -
Football players win football games.
Chuck Knox -
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
Cotton Fitzsimmons -
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.
Terry Francona -
You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
Ben Stein -
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.
Zig Ziglar -
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Zig Ziglar -
The war against terrorism is one we must win.
Lisa Murkowski -
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Vince Lombardi -
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Harriet Woods -
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.
David Robinson -
There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
Willie Shoemaker -
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.
Chuck Tanner -
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
Mark B. Cohen -
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.
Carlos Castaneda -
Who longest wait of all surely wins.
Helen Hunt Jackson -
If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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.
David Ogilvy -
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.
Barbra Streisand -
To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.
Roger Ascham -
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer -
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.
Vince Lombardi -
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell -
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins -
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Jack Nicklaus -
You cannot win if you cannot run.
Hank Stram -
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.
Bobby Labonte -
All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
Vince Lombardi -
Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.
Asafa Powell -
Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
Gene Littler -
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.
Bill Tilden