Winning Quotations | Page 3

I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations.

I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool.

Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

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

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

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.

If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.

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

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.

What is success?' It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

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

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things.

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

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.

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.

To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. Thats wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

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

As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

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

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.

But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

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

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.

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

It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m

If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about... and make a few million along the way, then I have been successful.

Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.

Winning 'Best Vlogger of 2013' from MTV is a really wonderful honor, and I wanted to thank all of you out there that used your fingers and clicked a button and made this happen, and to all of you that accidentally clicked my name and you were trying to click Jack and Finn, I'm sorry.

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.