Quotes About Victory

Bottom half of the seventh, Brock's boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry's heart was racing, he was sweating with relief and tension all at once, unable to sit, unable to think, in there, with them! Oh yes, boys, it was on!

Maybe it all went back to the days when games were decided, not by the best score in nine innings, but by the first team to score twenty-one runs

Boyd, borrowing from Sun Tzu, said the best commander is the one who wins while avoiding battle. The intent is to shatter cohesion, produce paralysis, and bring about collapse of the adversary by generating confusion, disorder, panic, and chaos. Boyd said war is organic and compared his technique to clipping the nerves, muscles, and tendons of an enemy, thus reducing him to jelly. As Boyd

I'll win the way I always do by being gone when they come. When they look, they'll see nothing of me and where I am they'll not know. This, I thought, is my way and right or wrong it's me. Being dead, then, I'll have won completely.

Ted was on a roll

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.

the reverend was back on his feet

recovered from

World Series in Seattle.

You've climbed higher mountains than I ever had to climb, but you have one more mountain to climb, and you know it. The past is always the highest peak, and the hardest to scale. But when you finally pull yourself to the top and peer over the edge, there's nothing before you but the rest of your life.

Well, I guess that's why they let the horses run the races. Sometimes a horse will surprise you and win.

you didn't get that self-assurance by just getting up every day and driving into an office. It came from competition, from putting yourself at risk of losing, then winning anyway.

But I know you. You'll hem and haw for a bit, but in the end, you'll go because you hate to lose—at anything.

I guess that's why they run the races," he said, "to see which horse actually wins.

We have not been called to hold the fort, but to storm the heights.

A few people so dedicated in time will shake the world for God. Victory is never won by the multitudes.

Men spoke of tribal war, of a gathering of vultures in the southeast, and a terrible leader who led his swiftly increasing hordes to victory.

The five-foot blade crushed Strabonus' casque and skull, and the king's charger reared screaming, hurling a limp and sprawling corpse from the saddle. A great cry went up from the host, which faltered and gave back.

In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle

What you inherited without lifting a finger—except to poison a few brothers—I fought for.

Sorcery thrives on success, not on failure.

The sudden, brilliant victory in France, like a Frankenstein monster, had turned against us; we had far outstripped our ability to supply the troops.

Our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right—not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this Hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God

It turns out that what makes history come out in triumph is some dumb sheep that couldn't find its way home.