Quotes About Victory

I don't know why I performed well against Arsenal, but probably we prepared well, and it could be their football style as well.

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.

Long periods can pass between the times you play for a championship, so you have to savor those moments.

There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.

I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.

You don't get many periods in your life when it all goes your way.

Many times, periods of struggle are more blessed times.

In the Champions League you need a certain level of perseverance, strength, dedication to scoring over 90 minutes.

You can put me in a cage, on a ladder, in any kind of match, and I will persevere. I will find a way.

Whatever team I go to is going to be a challenge at the beginning and I'm going to have to persevere through it.

I beat many good fighters and many who were better than me and the reason I beat them was because I was persistent, I was willing to go through those pain barriers.

That attitude, that persona I carry is something I've always had with me. I mean, that's what made me successful, especially in football, and is making me successful now.

Humanity makes continual progress toward truth, and light ever triumphs over darkness.

Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it.

When toilsome contests have been decided, good cheer is the best physician, and songs, the sage daughters of the Muses, soothe with their touch.

If a man is born for success, another may with a god's help 20 sharpen his edge and drive him towards prodigious feats of glory;   and without exertion few have won joy,   which is a radiance in men's lives beyond all deeds.

Nella realtà è sempre Golia a vincere. Ma non per questo Davide smetterà di guardarsi intorno, cercando una nuova pietra da scagliare.

I've come to see that competitors are necessary to those who want to get on in the world. Opposition is indispensable to success.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.

There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.