Ed McBain Quotes

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

Ed McBain

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• I've got to win every race.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Race
  • Got

• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • American
  • Win
  • Gold

• Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Home
  • Today
  • Win

• The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Decision
  • Mistake
  • End

• We always go into a game to win.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Game
  • Always
  • Win

• 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

• One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Team
  • Win

• I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Always
  • Win
  • Underdog

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Win

• In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Sports
  • Mistake

• I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Win

• I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Always
  • Win
  • Succeed

• I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Believe
  • Win
  • First

• Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Day

• Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Up
  • Time
  • Never

• It’s always the goal to win the Super Bowl, and by me being able to come home and play, that was like icing on the cake. You can drop the* *cherry on it, the strawberry and the sprinkles.

  

  Jacoby Jones
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Cake

• Let the boy win his spurs.

  

  Edward III of England
  • Boy
  • Win
  • Spurs

• As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Human
  • LGBT
  • Bacteria

• Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk

  

  Gary Crowley
  • Simplicity
  • Basics
  • beaut

• Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Time
  • Real
  • Reality

• I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Win
  • Aspirations
  • Nobel Prize