Quotes About Victory

The bull has been killed, sweating the last of its blood into dust and dark bronze bowls. It went quietly to its death, a good omen for the games to come.

My hands feel empty without the garland. I watch King Peleus embrace his son. I see the boy toss the garland in the air and catch it again. He is laughing, and his face is bright with victory.

It was enough to watch him win, to see the soles of his feet flashing as they kicked up sand, or the rise and fall of his shoulders as he pulled through the salt. It was enough.

Achilles smiles as his face strikes the earth.

But there was a line of rallied Greeks behind me screaming my name. His name. I did not stop.

His eyes opened. 'Name one hero who was happy

For who can be be ashamed to lose to such beauty? It was enough to watch him win.

Any Challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure.

What do you think the best way to conquer fear it? To face it head on and know in your heart that you are strong enough to overcome it... before it gets to you. There is no better way.

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

The score never interested me, only the game.

You've worked too hard to let an opportunity like this slip through your fingers—read the script.

There is nothing you can throw at me that I cannot metabolize, no thing impervious to my alchemy.

To lose your temper is to lose the battle.

Maggie Osborne

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it.

The Lord is waiting for you to ask Him to get involved in your situation. The quickest and surest way to do this is to humble yourself and then to position yourself for triumph, not just victory, according to God's pattern in Second Chronicles 20:12.

Only the victor had the potential of transcending an earlier opposition between the two, by defining both as survivors of the civil war. To transcend the terms of the earlier opposition is to forge a new community of survivors of the civil war.

So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Black doesn't break, we will overcome.