Winning Quotations | Page 5

My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.

If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

I am only about winning and getting better.

For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I'll never forget either feeling.

I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

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The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

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

When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go away.

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

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

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it.

To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate.

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.

I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.

I race to win, not to please people

Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

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.

Politics is about winning. If you don?t win, you don?t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

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

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

It's not easy to teach a child how to win.

It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.

A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport

I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.

Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.

After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken,

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.

Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

You have to win something for people to think about you.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.