Retief Goosen Quotes

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

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• I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • People
  • Think
  • Like

• 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.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Football
  • Things
  • Games

• They called Bill Parcells 'conservative' when he was winning two Super Bowls.

  

  Jim Finks
  • Winning

• I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.

  

  Anne Enright
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Time
  • Winning

• As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
  • Up
  • Children
  • Wife

• There's no greater feeling than winning a race.

  

  Jeff Gordon
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.

  

  David Rudisha
  • World
  • Important
  • Career

• You can't go on winning all the time.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Time
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  David Millar
  • People
  • Winning
  • Romantic

• The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • American
  • War
  • Law

• Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

  

  John Wooden
  • Great
  • Eyes
  • Winning

• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Up
  • Women
  • Winning

• Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Winning

• While it is important to win, it’s even more important to remain undefeated no matter what happens.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Important
  • Winning
  • Matter

• To me it's like starting all over, ... If you've watched any of the games I've played at the point guard position, it's honestly hard for other teams to stop it, because I'm putting pressure on guys. We don't always have to come down and rely on getting points off a set offense. We get a chance to run up and down the court and get a lot of easy baskets.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Games

• According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.

  

  Pal Benko
  • Great
  • Player
  • Memories

• When it's game situation, when it's game day, game time, when it's World Cup, when it's these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that, I live for that challenge.

  

  Tiffeny Milbrett
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Games

• Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• I have a friend who wanted to practise on my head because they wanted to be a stylist. So I offered what hair I had left to turn white.

  

  James Michael Tyler
  • Friend
  • Hair

• I think obviously vaccinations work. Vaccination has worked for many, many years. I am sensitive to the fact that there are some families who disagree but the difficulty is if I have a kid who is suffering from an illness who is subjected to a kid who walks into a room without vaccines that could kill that child and that's wrong.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Work
  • Suffering

• You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

  

  Retief Goosen
  • Winning
  • Games