Quotes About Victory

If we play defense the way we're supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it'll be a great fight.

The big teams are about the Champions League.

In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they're the reason their teams are winning.

A few years, there are teams that are just dominant over everyone. Those years are few and far.

Of course I want to be the best in the world; I want to play against big teams and against big stars.

Everybody loves playing against the best teams.

I've had teams where we've had to get on a bus for 200 miles, play a game, and then drive 200 miles back.

As a retired football coach, I know a good bit about teamwork and winning.

When things are right and things are focused, it's a game to me, and I'm there just stalking and punching and grabbing and tearing people up.

We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.

Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.

What I've seen and learnt from life is that when you give it your best, when you're in it at 100 percent, and you give it your blood, sweat and tears, something beautiful will come out of it.

I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

I've put my blood, tears and sweat into the sport.

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

It was 1995, the year Ben Crenshaw won the Masters. I was watching on TV, and I remember watching him sink his final putt on the 18th hole. He broke down in tears because his coach, Harvey Penick, had just died. I sat there watching with a box of Kleenex, wiping tears from my eyes and going, 'OK, this is crazy - I'm crying over golf!'

The medal just was an object, just a medal, and that's it. What really meant something was the blood, the sweat, the tears that went into getting that medal. I'll always have the memories of that with me.

I want to bring a Big 12 championship to Tech.

Yu Na Kim, Mao Asada, Carolina Kostner - all these girls can do triple-triples in their sleep, and they have the skating skills and the spins and the rest of the technical jumps. So I have to have that as well if I want to be able to call myself 'competitive' against them. And when I say 'competitive,' I mean I want to win.

I'm not knocking the other sports; I love other sports. There's a competitive and a technical level of them that I won't understand, probably, to a certain extent, but I've done a lot of other sports competing on college teams, and there's just nothing like fighting.

I was a born fighter before I got technical, and that's still in me.

I think, technically, we have won the war because people are going back into their neighbourhoods. Boko Haram as an organised fighting force - I assure you that we have dealt with them.