Quotes About Victory

When it was [Larry] Bird's turn [to sign souvenir Team USA basketballs], he said to [Brian] McIntyre ' What's the quickest it's taken anyone to do this?' McIntyre said between fifteen and twenty minutes. Bird said, 'Time me,' finished in about six minutes, tossed the pen to McIntyre and said, 'Won another one, didn't I?

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

I spied my shadow slinking up behind me in the night, I issued it a challenge, and we started in to fight. I wrestled with that shadow, but it wasn't any fun, I tried my very hardest— all the same, my shadow won.

Good music always defeats bad luck.

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning.

The Mongol army had accomplished in a mere two years what the European Crusaders from the West and the Seljuk Turks from the East had failed to do in two centuries of sustained effort. They had conquered the heart of the Arab world. No other non-Muslim troops would conquer Baghdad or Iraq again until the arrival of the American and British forces in 2003.

Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph could not be partial. It was complete

Happy days are here again,The skies above are clear again:Let us sing a song of cheer again,Happy days are here again!

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

He acted, however, himself, in this high position, with great energy and with complete success; and, at the same time, with all that modesty of deportment, and that delicate consideration for the officers under him—who, though inferior in rank, were yet his superiors in age and experience—which his position rendered proper, but which few persons so young as he would have manifested in circumstances so well calculated to awaken the feelings of vanity and elation.

The funerary banquet celebrates a life, often well lived, and the victory is in overcoming and accepting the change that death brings; honoring a loved one at death becomes victorious because it renews the living.

Jacqueline Wilson

Nothing is like a quarter-mile sprint. All muscle and breath and power. And then it's over and you got a thing behind you—another race you can clock among your races.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

The tool enables man to conquer. But, man, dost thou not know there is no more victory which is thy victory? The victory of our days belongs to the tool.

It is easy to boast of victory over ancient oppression, but what if victory has been gained at the price of an even greater subjection to the forces of the artificial necessity of the technical society which has come to dominate our lives?

Spiritual combat is as brutal as men's battle!"74

Ne büyük zafer olurdu. Ä°nsan sonunda herhangi bir baÅŸar? elde etmiÅŸ olurdu böylece; kendi y?k?m?n?.

De fapt, am descoperit ?i am ?tiut foarte devreme c? trebuie s? te ba?i tot timpul. Pe toate fronturile vie?ii, pe toate mizele existen?ei, c?ci nimic nu este câ?tigat dinainte, nimic nu este dat, nimic nu e u?or. A?a e via?a, s?racii nu au niciodat? dreptate, se spunea în familie. Nu trebuie s? te la?i p?c?lit, ad?ugau vecinii. Trebuie s? ar??i c? e?ti b?rbat, supralicitau prietenii mei.

Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.

this ain't the 4-H rodeo at the Pocahontas County Fair.... this is horse racing

The ones who win usually don't need the prize.