Andrea Pirlo Quotes

Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter.

Andrea Pirlo

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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Victory

• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Achievement

• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Victory

• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  

  Sallust
  • May
  • Nature
  • Law

• I think it’s -you know, it’s victory of the value of human rights, of the value of anti-corruption, of the value of anti-dictatorship. So I don’t think that I am the only one who win this Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Peace
  • Value
  • Victory

• I've seen America in this campaign, and I like what I see. It's worth fighting for and that's a fight I'll never stop. As for the battle that ends tonight, I do believe, as my father once said, that 'No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out.'

  

  Al Gore
  • Believe
  • America
  • Father

• Being a Lions fan is like being a Cubs fan: you just have to keep going. You don't have a choice. You can't give up, because one day, when it happens - and I believe it'll happen - then you can really savor it because you were there in the doldrums, and you get to be there in the victory.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Victory

• This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

  

  Charles Ferguson Smith
  • Victory

• Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very sure that the struggle was not contaminated by any moral principles.

  

  Elmer Davis
  • Struggle
  • Moral
  • Victory

• The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

  

  David Sarnoff
  • Believe
  • Victory

• Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Free
  • Victory

• If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

  

  Epictetus
  • Truth
  • Victory

• Victory in physical battles requires strength, muscles, and skill; but the fight is never tougher and victory is never sweeter than in the battles over self.

  

  John Bytheway
  • Victory

• In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

  

  John Hume
  • People
  • Party
  • Victory

• A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • Power
  • Political
  • Military

• Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

  

  Bill Toomey
  • Sad
  • Victory

• Perseverance and perspective until victory.

  

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart
  • Perspective
  • Victory
  • Perseverance

• I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • World
  • Thought
  • End

• I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Thinking

• There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Up
  • May
  • Experience

• I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Character
  • Taken

• Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter.

  

  Andrea Pirlo
  • Victory
  • Sweeter
  • Sadism