Quotes About Victory

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

I wanted to win, even in practice.

That's my main goal: to win a world championship.

I took a back seat and did whatever it took for the team to win.

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

I'm not a nice guy on the field, and I've never really respected a guy who's been a 'nice guy' on the field. I want opposition to be hard, to play to win the game for their team.

To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

You got to be willing to be knocked out to win a fight. You got to be willing to get booed off the stage to get a standing ovation.

We can take a 'It was hard to get there.' But we ain't taking no loss. We're going to win.

I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice.

When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

I think the goal is to win everything. Whatever we can reach is nice to take.

I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.

If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.

With darts it's just one against one, it's blow for blow. The only thing I could compare it to is boxing. It's dead exciting. You're reacting to each other, the adrenaline's pumping. You don't feel calm at all. But it's all about being able to win when you're pumped up. People say you don't play the player; I play the player every time.

All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.

It's a child's dream to win against big players, big teams like Manchester United.

Nobody likes to lose. I'm not going to be happy and excited about that, but I'm still going to be me because I know from the bottom of my heart there's going to be a next game; maybe try to win the next game.

We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

I win my awards at the box office.