James Wolfensohn Quotes

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

James Wolfensohn

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• There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Winning
  • Attitude
  • motivation

• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Team
  • Support
  • Winning

• Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Opportunity
  • Winning
  • Chance

• After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Winning
  • Win
  • Same

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

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Fun
  • Winning
  • Changes

• I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Sea
  • Horse
  • Inside

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Night
  • Winning
  • Effort

• You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Day
  • Winning
  • Season

• It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Winning
  • Voice
  • Blue

• People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I love to play music.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Love
  • Play

• I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

  

  Dana Delany
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Horse
  • Fly

• Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Winning
  • Race
  • Three

• When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Horse
  • Living
  • Ride

• It astounds me that I just keep getting better. I'm going to keep believing in myself and realize that look at Annika, when she was winning two, three tournaments a year, people were like, well, how much better can she get? I think, why can't I do that.

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Believe
  • Winning
  • Tournaments

• A big book is a big misfortune.

  

  Callimachus
  • Book
  • Misfortune

• I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Music
  • Art
  • High

• There have been so many times over the years where people have said "Man, I thought I was just coming to this deal to get a little handier with my horse" and I'll say "Well, in the beginning, I thought that's all you were coming for too. But it turns out it's about something else."

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Man
  • Horse
  • Deal

• But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • Winning
  • Horse