Quotes About Victory

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

tortoise always manages to win the race by using its brains.

I'll announce the winning class at the end of the day.

Miss Daisy was really dumb! Even I know what you get when you multiply four times four. But that smarty-pants-I-know-everything-girl Andrea Young beat me to it and got called on first.

In just one day at the 1904 Olympics, American gymnast George Eyser won six medals, including three golds. That was amazing in itself. But that's not even the amazing part of the story. The most amazing part was that Eyser only had one leg! His left one had to be amputated after it was run over by a train. Johnny Weissmuller was one

There is also a third kind of ghost victory that's essentially a special case of the second. It occurs when measures become the mission. This is the most destructive form of ghost victory, because it's possible to ace your measures while undermining your mission.

As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

If failure is not a possibility then winning is not so sweet.

The same generation that had been driven to such depths in the 1930s rose up to push back the forces of totalitarianism in a two-ocean global war in the 1940s.

talking about, just look at the Celtics.

I've lost more times than I've won, and every damn time I got back up! That's all that matters!

In the book The Dip, Seth Godin explains the importance and benefits of becoming the best in the world at what you do. As Godin explains in The Dip: "The rewards are heavily skewed, so much so that it's typical for #1 to get ten times the benefit of #10, and a hundred times the benefit of #100.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Dana Stabenow

In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall. He makes me as surefooted as a deer, leading me safely along the mountain heights. —2 Samuel 22:30, 34

You shouldn't let yourself get all hot and bothered just because he took it upon himself to steal a simple kiss. Why, I think it's all rather romantic, don't you? Besides, if His Lordship were to learn he's upset you so, he would no doubt consider it a great victory.

A cutlass thrust itself before his nose. "I mean it, Gray!" Never pausing, he knocked it aside and began to haul himself up and over the gunwale. She tried to step on his fingers as he reached for a hold. He grabbed her ankle. She pulled her knife on him. He snared her wrist and threw the weapon aside. She screamed every curse she knew at him. And he pulled her into his arms and kissed her, to the wild cheers of her own traitorous crew.

Staying positive is one of the hardest fights, though I'm happy I'm in it.

What does the end of a war mean if not that one side ran out of men willing to die?

You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you're having a good day.

The Taliban cannot militarily defeat us—but we can defeat ourselves.