Quotes About Victory

Bell. His next punch was a clean miss, but if Bell missed any at all they had been invisible punches, for Bell had promptly given him such a beating that it was three days before he could ride out of town. No man in a lifetime takes two such beatings. No man could take them. When Jud Devitt approached

If I catch you on my back trail, no matter what you're hunting, I'll stake each of you to six feet of northern Arizona that nobody will ever take away from you.

The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy's capacity to resist.

we've got! Maybe better than all of them!" "Maybe," Deke said shortly, starting

fighting man. Loss Degner was bad all through and made no

He wasn't tough. A tough man has to win and lose. He has to come up after being knocked down, he has to have taken a few beatings, and know what it means to win the hard way. Anybody, he said dryly, can knock a man down. When you've been knocked down at least three times yourself, and then got up and floored the other man, then you can figure you're a tough hombre.

If I make one last prayer I ask that your god grant me an enemy.

arm was seized and he was thrown over Fallon's back with a flying mare. He hit the ground with a thud and Fallon fell upon him, a knee driving into his solar plexus as Fallon came down, then that

Twenty-five Percent Slam

The bigger the storm, the brighter the rainbow.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

We all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them.

Life is a fight, and I like a good soldier.

El deseo verdadero de cambiar supone tener media batalla ganada.

Rivalry adds so much to the charm of one's conquests.

for all to get in, and Beth found it very hard to pass the lions. Old Mr. Laurence was the biggest one, but after

His worst enemy would succumb to this treatment.

He continued to slip into depressions that he couldn't shake, and his triumphs seemed only to deepen his gloom. The sea alone would lighten his mood.

Well, Grant, We've had the devil's own day, haven't we? Sherman remarked. Yes, replied Grant with a drag on his cigar. Lick 'em tomorrow though. p205

He had to bide his time, though, because he first had to dispose of two legal challenges that dogged his footsteps throughout 1879.

To ensure that he won, he submitted to games only where he could dictate the rules.

He had prevailed in almost every major program he had sponsored—whether the bank, assumption, funding the public debt, the tax system, the Customs Service, or the Coast Guard—despite years of complaints and bitter smears.

When playing checkers or chess, he showed exceptional caution, studying each move at length, working out every possible countermove in his head. "I'll move just as soon as I get it figured out," he told opponents who tried to rush him. "You don't think I'm playing to get beaten, do you?"12 To ensure that he won, he submitted to games only where he could dictate the rules.

This testimony was not only a fiasco for the judge but a public-relations victory for Rockefeller.