Winning Quotes - Page 97

The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.

Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number.

It would be kind of ill to see Rachel McAdams win an Oscar [for Spotlight] - I don't think people give her credit for her range, she started in a kind of character with younger demographic-aged films and really made a push to be taken more seriously and got a lot of opportunities and knocked it out the park. But I feel like Jennifer Jason Leigh deserves one, maybe not just for Hateful Eight but for [Anomalisa] and everything. Like, I tried to watch Adaption again, that's rough!

I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

All I can do is go out there and play hard and try and help my team win, and that's what I'm going to keep doing.

Over-learning & over-preparing gives you the winning edge in any area.

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.

I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.

For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.