Winning Quotes - Page 32

Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

He who will not risk cannot win.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing.

Even if you don't win you learn. So there's no losing. You win the fight or you learn.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time - defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player.

Once you win the Cup once, you feel like it's yours. You don't want to give it up.

I always used to tell my players that we are here to win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose.

Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.

You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.

To hell with exciting. I'd rather be drab as hell and win.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

The only person who can really motivate you is you.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.