Lois McMaster Quotes

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

Lois McMaster

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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

• When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Game
  • Player

• 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

• I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Games
  • Fan
  • Yankees

• There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Game
  • Winning
  • Famous

• 'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Everyone
  • Hunger

• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Night
  • Effort
  • Winning

• You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Day
  • Winning
  • Season

• People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• 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 started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Writing
  • Game
  • Games

• The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Real
  • Games
  • Pressure

• Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Moments
  • Games
  • Everest

• The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.

  

  Doc Rivers
  • Player
  • Winning

• I believe whenever you're winning and doing the right thing, you're stats will be fine, and everything else will come in place.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Believe
  • Winning

• I want to be a Hall of Famer, have an impact on my franchise, and you can do all of that by winning a championship.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Winning

• I fight to drive my percentages through the roof for winning and lower my percentage by taking the least amount of damage and least amount of hits.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Winning

• Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.

  

  Kit Bond
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Work
  • Women
  • Done

• The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Fashion
  • Problem
  • Longevity

• If we somehow could win a couple, our last 10 would be a very good record against top 20 teams. We have to keep grinding because that's what the Big Ten is about. We're playing against teams that beat us the first time, and we're trying to show we've improved by getting some of these guys on the way out.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Playing
  • Against
  • Beat

• Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

  

  Ella Leya
  • Life is
  • Harmony
  • Vice versa

• I believe that we have to lift the voice without fear and simply go forward, because in a lot of other occasions, we got tired, we have lowered the arms and simply let everything happen.

  

  Alfonso Herrera
  • Voice
  • Happen
  • Forward

• If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Winning
  • Games
  • Concepts