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Quotes About Victory

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
~ Vladimir Putin
Haha come fight us now Napoleon
~ Vladimir Putin
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
~ Voltaire
God is always on the side of the big battalions.
~ Voltaire
I'd had two fights in the past couple of hours; won one, lost one (to a bird)
~ W. Bruce Cameron
The development of good character is a battle that you, I, and everyone must fight for himself. But victory can be ours.
~ W. Clement Stone
In life the loser's score is always zero.
~ W. H. Auden
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.
~ Unknown
we may patiently pass through this life in afflictions, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other disagreeable circumstances, contented with this single assurance, that our King will never desert us, but will give what we need, until having finished our warfare, we shall be called to the triumph.
~ Unknown
Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, I walk in a battle fought over again
~ W.B. Yeats
Barach. There, he is down! He is up again! He is going out into the deep water.
~ W.B. Yeats
It will soon be found that the principal value of the training lies not so much in the actual physical holds or breaks, but in the psychological reaction which engenders and fosters the necessary attitude of mind which refuses to admit defeat and is determined to achieve victory.
~ Unknown
They gave him a manger for a cradle, a carpenter's bench for a pulpit, thorns for a crown, and a cross for a throne. He took them and made them the very glory of his career.
~ Unknown
The Yankees lose so seldom, you have to celebrate every single time.
~ Unknown
In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.
~ Paul Keres
I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.
~ Fred Perry
Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance.
~ Adam Gilchrist
Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight
~ Horatio Nelson
a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
~ Unknown
As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.
~ Jerry West
My approach to the races hasn't changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.
~ Valentino Rossi
Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.
~ Li Na