Alfie Kohn Quotes

The race to win turns us all into losers.

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• I've got to win every race.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Race
  • Got

• An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Win

• Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Race
  • Election
  • Still

• 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

• It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Remember
  • First
  • Race

• But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • War
  • Never
  • Win

• I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • America

• All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Want
  • Win
  • Choose

• That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Win

• As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Winning

• Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• If elected, I will win.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Win
  • Will
  • Elected

• It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • World
  • America
  • Team

• We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Color
  • End
  • Race

• President-elect Trump wants to win them if you're going to be involved in a war. I don't think he wants to be involved in war, but when we are, he wants to win.

  

  Jack Keane
  • War
  • Think
  • Win

• The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Win

• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Worry
  • Company
  • Cake

• The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.

  

  Damon Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Today

• I was definitely very much a country boy.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Country Boy

• Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'

  

  Ian Axel
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• The race to win turns us all into losers.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Win
  • Race
  • Losers