Bill Nichols Quotes

It's no use just winning, we've got to win well.

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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.

  

  Gary Carter
  • World
  • Me
  • Winning

• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• 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

• 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.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Country
  • Day

• There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Winning
  • Prize
  • Magical

• 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.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Life
  • Me
  • Winning

• Let students use technologies in the classroom.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Use
  • Students
  • Classroom

• 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

• We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Long
  • Winning

• There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • Life
  • Important
  • Winning

• I began these clinics because I want to share my years of experience in around the ring, in addition to my proven winning methods. I have seen the good and the bad. I have learned valuable lessons, which I want to pass along to those truly interested in the sport.

  

  Emanuel Steward
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Bad

• 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

• I think cool moments like winning a Grammy deserve a nice little party where you really soak it in and not have to work and stuff. I do remember throwing a party on that Grammy night, but it was work.

  

  Ciara
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Night

• 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

• I was at UCLA when John Wooden was the basketball coach. The next coach was Gene Bartow, who got fired for winning 90 percent plus of his games. He wasn't John Wooden. It's incredibly difficult to replace someone who has been seen as an icon.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Winning
  • Basketball

• They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.

  

  Jeremy London
  • Winning

• For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

  

  Carmen Busquets
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• Young artists, I really love to see us winning.

  

  Dimitri Leslie Roger
  • Winning

• Well, it speaks to the character of the players more than anything. Bob Myers and his staff have done an incredible job of putting together this roster. I was well aware of the versatility that the roster had, but as I got to know the players I realized they had what it took spiritually, emotionally. They were united. They wanted to win. They were close.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Character
  • Together
  • Player

• You have a mighty army, but the greatest force is the one that you don't have to use.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Force
  • Use
  • Greatest

• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Improving
  • Maintaining

• It's no use just winning, we've got to win well.

  

  Bill Nichols
  • Winning
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