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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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
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This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children./ Don't do your enemies' work for them./ Finish your own.
Marge Piercy
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There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.
Carlos Gracie, Jr.
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Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.
Pete Rose
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People like being on winning teams.
Kevin Plank
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Our thing is we're trying to win and just get in a groove where we can continue it and get into the playoffs. If you start worrying about seeds then your focus isn't on winning games.
Eddie Charles Jones
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History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others
William Graham Sumner
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Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
Allan Sherman
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Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure.
Neil McDonald
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People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.
Aisha Tyler
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The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.
Chuck Noll
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As long as we don't have any big injuries, we should be fine. Start coming together, eventually we'll start winning.
Eddy Curry
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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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During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
Bobby Knight
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These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.
Payne Stewart
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I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.
Jennie Finch
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When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.
Cam Newton
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As soon as I saw she was playing, winning matches, I just kind of shot a quick e-mail to her agent. Fortunately, I got the positive answer and I think the rest is history.
Mahesh Bhupathi
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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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Winning a world title has always been the dream and ultimate goal.
John John Florence
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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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I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.
Jorge Posada
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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