Quotes About Victory

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

We have not yet begun to fight.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.