Winning Quotes
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People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
Marcel Dionne -
Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.
Cat Deeley -
I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.
Viola Davis -
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
Maajid Nawaz -
I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.
T.I. -
Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.
Andrew Bogut -
It can be a living hell to go through endless campus investigations. I've seen this go down, and there really is no winning once the accusation is made, even if the process provides formal vindication.
Jared Polis
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In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
Donald Trump -
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
Matt Taibbi -
Over-learning & over-preparing gives you the winning edge in any area.
Brian Tracy -
Winning a Grand Slam is not something I'll think about.
David Ferrer -
The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.
Warren Spahn -
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
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I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
Leo Durocher -
I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.
Boomer Esiason -
When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.
Donald Sterling -
The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.
Sandy Koufax -
Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
Indira Gandhi -
Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
Emilie Autumn Liddell
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Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.
Carol S. Dweck -
Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
David Pleat -
I can't be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible.
Arnold Palmer -
He's definitely the best player in the NBA - to me. I don't know if winning the (MVP) award is important to him or not. But he has three (championship) rings and that's what it's all about.
Kobe Bryant