Quotes About Victory

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.

The biggest thing I think is, 'It's OK to care. It's OK to want to win and to be that team. To be upset when we lose.'

Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.

Everybody believes they can win now. That's why there are so many upsets in the Grand Slams.

I really get excited when we win. I get really upset when we don't, and I hope that still has a place in the NFL.

The shorter the game is then the bigger the chance of an upset.

It's a beautiful sport, boxing, when you're winning and everything is going well but when you hit the lows it really upsets you.

The magic of the cup is winning it, or causing an upset as far as I am concerned - but it is not so enjoyable for anyone when you are on the receiving end.

That first world title has to be the most wonderful moment and to beat Bristow, the No 1 in the world, was the ultimate. There's not many matches I remember, but I do remember that one, remember playing really, really well. Bristow was so upset he wouldn't talk to me for a few weeks after I beat him.

That is one of my biggest problems; I do get upset when we lose and it takes me a while to get over it.

All I care about is winning. So when I can't make the play, the reason I'm upset is I'm not helping the team win.

All I want to do is what I do best: go out there and put a hand or a foot upside somebody's head.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

It was an impossible ask to go out to Russia and knock out Kovalev. I felt that was the only way I'd win, but I made a good account of myself and we keep moving onwards and upwards.

I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.

The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.

A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.

Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing

Nobody knows that they're going to be Champions - you have to work to get there.