Quotes About Victory

No one ever won a game by resigning.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

Nobody's taller than the last man standing

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

To finish first, you must first finish.

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.