Quotes About Victory

I feel good. I'm up there. I got third in the 100 'fly, I've qualified in the top eight already for the 100 freestyle.

I don't think about second or third place.

It is the '94 race which in many ways allowed Ted Kennedy to become his own man rather than the 'third brother.' He had to reach down and win it on his own.

I became third in the U.S. as a junior pro surfer.

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

I thought if you tapped out, you lost the round. Come to find out, you actually lose the fight.

I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.

I can give it my all and make plays and dominate my side of the field, but it takes all 11 guys with a certain thought process that we're going to go out there, and we're going to win.

Losing is never part of my thought process.

I used to visualise the stadium erupting as the ball hit the back of the net. I erased all negative thoughts from my head.

So once the game begins, it doesn't matter if it's 10, 20 or 80 thousand fans. The objective is to win the match, and that's where my focus is.

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.

I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.

Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.

I've had over seven thousand pro fights.

Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome.

That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want it to be Verizon Wireless.

The New York Times

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

The purpose of Biblical history is to trace the victory of Jesus Christ.