Winner Quotations

In New York, they like winners. They don't like second place.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.

The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.

I do want to go out on top, as a winner

For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'

It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor.

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.

We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody's lunch.

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.

I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

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

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

What's so special about Danica Patrick is that she's a racer, not a novelty or pr gimmick, ... She was under tremendous pressure the entire month of May in Indianapolis and she came through with flying colors. She's paid her dues and now is getting the attention she deserves. Her growing popularity with race fans everywhere is a great boost for the league and we look forward to seeing her in August with Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon and the rest of the stars of the Indy 500.

Unless the public is satisfied that the election process has been done fairly and the winner has won fair and square, there's a real question about how the next president will govern, whoever he is.

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

Global competition is about winners and losers.

The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.

We have to have another good week of practice and continue to get better. It's a tough place to play and the winner of that series is going to end up with the No.2-seed in the conference tournament so it's big for both teams.

We have a sportswriter's award that we'd like you to give to one artist for one piece of art. It doesn't have to be a category winner or best of show winner, anything you like. You pick it.

I'm a winner. Dwyane's a winner. We're going to bring winning to Miami.

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

I know I'm a sinner, but make me a winner!

The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.

I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something.

I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.

Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.

Get the winners into the game.

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

I'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

I have seen many lean riders in the peloton, but very few Tour winners

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

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

I'm known as a winner now.

Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

This race is all but over, ... President Bush is our projected winner in the state of Ohio.

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.

We had been gunning for the youngest winner record all year and this was our last chance.

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

Lehman is the winner so far this quarter. Lehman has a bigger fixed income business proportional to the size of the company.

Scott has shown he can be a winner in NASCAR's Busch and Craftsman Truck series and we look forward to getting him to the winner's circle next season in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series in the No. 10 Valvoline Dodge Charger.

She?s such a great ball striker, ... and if it?s in her hitting zone, she?s going to hit a winner almost every single time.

She's like me. We're extremely competitive. But we're good enough friends so that we've been able to compete knowing that when you do, you know there's a winner and loser. But the friendship goes beyond basketball.

SIMPLE is the direction the whole industry is moving toward for a standard-based instant messaging solution. The winner is obvious.

She ran well, but the speed on the rail has been dangerous all day. We passed a lot of horses, and she ran a great race to be second. But the winner got an early lead, and it was hard to pass her.

Of course! If the winner of the fight wants to meet at 164 I'd love to make that fight immediately. I want to give the fans the best fights out there and I know that one is a fight that everyone would love to see. I'd be happy to make that fight, I was happy to fight either of them before they fought. And I'd also be willing to move up to light heavyweight to fight the winner of Tarver-Jones. That fight would be HUGE in Florida.

Of course, I cannot pretend this is just accidental. The winner of the previous Tour was shown, but he wasn't highlighted, either.

Now that Tyson has added this $25,000 incentive, I am more determined than ever to try and break the world record. With such a strong field in this event the winner will have to show he has a combination of power and endurance. The winner of this race will no doubt also be the new world record holder.

Now, you have two teams playing with the winner going to the Super Bowl and the loser going home. We expect nothing less than an all-out war (at Denver). They are a solid team in all phases.

New Hampshire has never had a repeat winner in the truck series. I'd like to keep that streak alive.

Pfizer is clearly a winner here. Pfizer is clearly putting their solid foot forward. They've got a good franchise and it's good potential for the next couple years.

PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl."Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is --where?" Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peace, The goal and the rival forgotten alike, And the long fatigue of the needless hike. His spirit a-squat in the grass and the dew Of the dogless Land beyond the Stew, He sleeps, like a saint in a holy place, A winner of all that is good in a race. --Sukker Uffro

Nimbus was the clear winner with the highest bid in all combinations.

I have been playing quite well and I am feeling good and now I have a big flu. So I don't know what's going to happen. But the way I am hitting the ball I feel very happy and under no pressure. You always want to play well as a past winner and you remember the shots you hit before and try to repeat history.

I don't know why a different winner has won here every year. It's just whoever is hot at the right time.

I can learn a lot from Paul. I need him to get his opinions. There are other good runners ? the Olympic and world champion and the London Marathon winner ? but with Paul there, it's good for us.