Winning Quotations | Page 2

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.

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

As long as I win I'm doing something right.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

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.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.

I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody’s contribution is important.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important to know just at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you face, you know, that you're going to win at the end of the day. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in God, know that He's going to get you through it.

With Australians we're saying we're going to win before we start playing and pretty much keep on saying that.

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

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.

Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

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.

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.