Winning Quotes
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In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election
P. J. O'Rourke
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There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame.
Anne Donovan
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I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
Jason Calacanis
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An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger. They all say they can, but the people who do the drafting don't talk to agents. They talk to coaches, they watch film, they talk to the people who've worked with players. They don't talk to agents.
Lou Holtz
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As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.
Stefan Edberg
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You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
Gail Collins
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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
Bill Tilden
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I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.
Bronte Campbell
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If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.
Pauline Marois
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To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
William Congreve
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I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.
Lena Headey
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People like being on winning teams.
Kevin Plank
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
Al McGuire
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Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.
Derek Kilmer
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No, it was honest," said Harry. "One of the only honest things you've said to me. You don't care whether I live or die, but you do care that I help you convince everyone you're winning the war against Voldemort.
Joanne Rowling
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Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.
George Lincoln Rockwell
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There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.
Carlos Gracie, Jr.
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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
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We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.
Eric Cantona
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It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
James MacArthur
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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
Seneca the Younger
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I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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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
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The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities.
Kirby Smart