Sheryl Swoopes Quotes
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That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
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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.
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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.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.
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I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
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As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
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The determination to win is the better part of winning.
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When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn’t. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven’t eaten for two days you’ll understand.
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My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.
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If winning or losing is going to define your life, you're on a rough road.
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I fight to drive my percentages through the roof for winning and lower my percentage by taking the least amount of damage and least amount of hits.
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We think that this message - of someone that's from the private sector that built a company and now wants to shrink a government and grow an economy - is a winning message.
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I enjoy winning, but more importantly, I enjoy the people I'm around.
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I'd love to be an award-winning, commercial successful actress! I would love to push myself to the limits as an actress and experiment with playing really interesting women.
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It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
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It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured. And those are millions of people whose lives are impacted right now.
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My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess.
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Let's not forget, I got divorced.
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At that time the African American community was not a large reading community. They learned from observation and participation. So we had a lot of visuals that they could identify with. Photographs and short captions, as opposed to long, drawn-out essays and editorials. They were visual interpretations of the conditions people lived in. Inner cities, poor communities. Combined with revolutionary imagery. The people saw themselves in the artwork. They became the heroes. They could see their uncles in it. They could see their fathers or their brothers and sisters in the art.
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As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, making higher education more affordable and accessible is a top priority of mine.
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Everybody wants to win.
