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Quotes About Victory

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
~ Don Shula
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
~ Dick Butkus
You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
~ Earl Weaver
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
~ Arnold Palmer
I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.
~ Michelle Kwan
Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
~ Martina Navratilova
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
~ Mike Singletary
Great moments are born from great opportunities.
~ Herb Brooks
I don't play any tournaments to come second best.
~ Andy Murray
It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.
~ Floyd Patterson
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.
~ Pete Sampras
So this is it. Match point for eternity.
~ Boris Becker
Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
~ Bum Phillips
The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.
~ Phil Mickelson
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
~ William Arthur Ward
Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish.
~ Brian Regan
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
~ Tom Landry
When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.
~ Donald Bradman
I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.
~ John Daly
Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.
~ Alex Ferguson
Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion
~ Burt Lancaster
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in
~ Ian Thorpe
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated
~ Emmitt Smith