Quotes About Victory

When Princeton plays Harvard, I'm rooting for Princeton, of course. Go Tigers!

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

I play this game to be the best tight end I can possibly be and win as many football games as I possibly can.

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.

With a team that's tight, that's close, we enjoy playing for each other. And it's going to find success.

That's what the Olympics are about, is these tight games that bring out performances that make us really proud.

But really I like things tough and coming through a tight game against the best.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

Happiness Begin with Success

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

In general, this is what destroys great states: one group wants to overcome the other in any possible way and then to take a bitter vengeance on the defeated.

Metellus, who, by his exertions, had triumphed over every obstacle, over arms, deserts, seasons, and finally over Nature herself that controls all, nothing was impossible [...]

How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized.

trebalo je da ostarim, a da bih ostario, trebalo je da radim, da se borim, da skupim sve svoje intelektualne i fizi?ke sange kako bih izišao kao pobednik iz ovog krstaškog rata u koji sam pošao da bih osvojio svoju dušu.

Iskustvo me je nau?ilo da se ?ovek, svaki put kada nešto želi da pobedi i u tome ne uspe, razboli. Oni koji gospodare situacijom nisu nikada bolesni, ?ak i ako je njihov organizam u stvari, svakim danom sve slabiji.

Good always triumphs over evil, even though it can take a while. Light always overcomes darkness, even though it can seem awfully dark.

Only think of two things — the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other.

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

Victory awaits him who has everything in order—luck, people call it.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

What I realized about this glorious experience, years later, is that it had forever modified my expectations. The Bombers gave me a taste of what it was like to play on an excellent team, and this had rewired my brain to believe it was my God-given right to experience the same sensation many times over.

The same unceasing drive was something displayed by Russell, Puyol, Berra, Richard, and every other captain in Tier One. Early struggles culminated in a defining moment, a breakthrough that left no doubt about their desire to win at any cost. And in each case, after they had established this fact, their teams began to turn the corner. The pattern was so consistent that it suggested their doggedness might, in fact, have been contagious.