Quotes About Victory

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

The end crowneth the work.

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

I put in the work to hand Keith Thurman his first loss.

In every fight the strategy is to baptize and take their soul - that's always the strategy.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

Skating, like all other sports, has an element of strategy.

A fight involves the emotion, the strategy of combat. There are many factors connected to a fight.

GSP is at the top of my list in knowing how to use strategy, how to bring an opponent out of his game, how to beat a guy without taking a beating. And he's good in standup and good at grappling.

I like guys who know how to implement a strategy. The ones who make a fight look easy. But there's no easy fight, even if you win in 30 seconds, that only means you were able to execute your strategy correctly and induced your opponent to make a mistake. Those are the champions. That's why they are the champions.

I just love fighting. You lock me in there with another guy - that strategy, that game of chess - I'm in love with it. I'll be in love with it until the day I die. Now, if you want to strap a belt on me at the end of it? That's cool, my kids can brag about it.

Boxing is like any other sport, like football, basketball, whatever, where there's a strategy you stick to in order to win.

I look at a streak as I don't lose - literally.

In the arcades, when I was younger, there was a game called 'King of Fighters 95,' and I thought I was pretty good. I had a 50-strong win streak on 'Street Fighter 2' around that time.

Cub Swanson's a guy you either get through or you don't, and I fought him when he was on a nice winning streak.

I'm proud of what I've done. I look at it and I try to stay humble and do what I've got to do, but I think people forget, I'm the first guy to beat the win streak at Nova Uniao with Johnny Eduardo. He had an 11-fight win streak and I beat him, and people say, 'That's nothing.'

I have a competitive streak.

When I went to work with Garinger, they were good kids and a very good team. But they had a nine-game losing streak, and you can see that they were getting down and depressed and not feeling rewards for their efforts. But when I came in there, I didn't need to teach them much about X's and O's.

When you're on a win streak, your confidence is high, and it means everything in your camp has been working and it means you're on the right track.

I remember what it's like, when I was 19-0, going on that awesome streak, feeling invincible. But it's like you eventually run into reality.

There's no man on the planet that has a five-fight win streak that isn't confident.