WINNING QUOTES II
quotations about winning
Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.
PHIL JACKSON
Sacred Hoops
Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?
TERRY PRATCHETT
Witches Abroad
Slow and steady wins the race.
AESOP
"The Tortoise and the Hare", Aesop's Fables
Whoever can surprise well must conquer.
JOHN PAUL JONES
letter to the American commissioners to France, February 10, 1778
I'm so tired of pretending my life isn't perfect and bitching and just winning every second.
CHARLIE SHEEN
The Alex Jones Show, February 24, 2011
Oh, them winning is all of us losing.
ADAM DAVIDSON
"Turning the Housing Bubble into Movie Magic in The Big Short", Boise Weekly, February 22, 2016
For a team that was used to winning silverware year in year out, close to year without winning is such a long time.
NDYAMUHAKI EMANZI
"VVC win KIU Open to revive winning touch", Kawowo Sports, April 11, 2017
Sports are set up as a "zero" sum game. Someone wins and someone loses. Most would agree that Americans like to win. Our whole society seems set up on a competitive matrix. It starts well before Little League age and extends into adulthood and beyond.
MARK HOPKINS
"The president says, 'Get used to winning'", Northwest Florida Daily News, March 29, 2017
When people know what winning is, and they have a scoreboard to look at, and understand what they get when the team wins, they respond. The others just watch the clock until it is time to go home.
KEN KELLER
"Learning from Super Bowl Winners", The Santa Clarita Valley Signal, February 6, 2016
Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers.
MARK GORMAN
attributed, Living Your Best Life Now: Maximizing Your Potential
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
MUHAMMAD ALI
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
I've always been on winning teams, so I just have that winning mentality and I want to win every game.
ELLEN NYSTROM
"The CSU Rams' record-breaking streak is only the beginning of a new era", Mile High Sports, February 18, 2016
In this life, you have winners and losers. the more you win, the higher you go.
DANIEL NAYERI
Another Faust
Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.
LADY GAGA
Lady Gaga: Born This Way
For ... any great athlete, really -- winning is the only thing that matters, the only thing that anyone remembers.
PAUL NEWBERRY
"Where is the urgency, Sergio?", Sauk Valley, April 7, 2017
Winning is part of the process of living your potential but winning in a way that tarnishes your image or crashes your soul is not a good win by any means. Winning in a productive way is ensuring that you are building the right relationships and treating people right in your bid to get what you want.
VERA AMA NG'OMA
Peak Persona: Put the Power of Your Potential to Work
When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.
LANCE ARMSTRONG
Every Second Counts
Winning is everything. Nothing is presidential except victory.
DONALD TRUMP
"It turns out Donald Trump is not an Artist of the Deal", Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2017
You win ballgames, and a lot of good things happen from there. Fans start showing up. Nobody is ever in a bad mood when you are winning. You can come up and slap me in the face, if we have won 10 in a row, I will laugh at it. Winning does a lot of things for teams and comrades in arms, energy and good feelings.
CHRIS SALE
"Chris Sale Yearns To Pitch In Postseason", CBS Chicago, February 20, 2016
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
GEORGE ADE
Fables in Slang