Quotes About Victory

When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.

All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.

I sprint to keep my wind up.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

Talent and skill goes out the window after eight or nine rounds.

I rode all around Hollywood listening to Donna Summer, looking out the window - all by myself - just going, 'I'm number one!' It's a pretty extraordinary feeling.

My dad brought me up not to accept second place. I lost a karate tournament once and got a trophy for fourth place. My dad tossed that trophy out the window on the way home.

Everything goes out of the window when you start an Ashes series. It's about grabbing the moment.

The toughest time was lying in a Tenerife hospital with no-one speaking English, next to a window with the sun beating down and my leg tied up, thinking I would never box again or even walk again. It took every bit of shine off winning the world title.

We know the window of boxing don't last long. We want to try to get everything we can in this window and beat everyone we can.

To be the first British athlete to win a gold is amazing, but to win it in the U.K. is something else. Also, having my family here with me has made it extra special, and I know all my friends back home have been cheering me on and putting posters in their windows. I want to thank them all.

There's little windows that open up during the fight, to finish your opponent. Whenever those windows open, I'm jumping right through them without hesitation.

I just want to win a world title - that's the main objective and whether it happens at Windsor or whether it happens in America it doesn't matter.

We always say the wine tastes a little better after a win.

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

Bradley Wright-Phillips

I'm pretty excited when I get a good kick up in the air and our wings start chasing, because I know it's a 50-50. When you kick well and compete well, the odds fall on our side.

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

After I defended my title the first time when I beat Sarah Kaufman, I went back to my room, and my friend ordered all these trays of hot wings. They came into the room, and the little hotel sheet thing was draped over it, and I go to open it up, and it's breaded and boneless. I cried.

As a child, I was competitive in whatever it was - first one to eat your wings, first one to run to the door. In everything we were competitive. I always wanted to have the edge.

In 1985 I graduated from Deshler High School in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and I was their first African American homecoming queen. You would have thought I won Miss America or Miss U.S.A. (wink), because of my excitement.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.