Quotes About Victory

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

I came to success very late in life.

In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.

Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it.

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing.

The passages also offer an assurance that God has such resistance under control and will ultimately overwhelm it.

I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. [News conference, April 21 1961]

Independence may have been declared in 1776, but it still had to be won. Years of bloody warfare followed. The death toll was staggering, for soldiers and noncombatants. Of all the wars in the history of the United States, only the Civil War witnessed a greater percentage of deaths among those who soldiered. The ratio of

We fight[,] get beat[,] rise and fight again.

There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.