Quotes About Victory

I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.

I did not win anything at Leverkusen so to win six titles in four years with Bayern shows the move was worthwhile.

It's a treasure to be part of a Game 7 against a worthy opponent.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

If I do something, I do it with the idea to get to the top - without that, I would stop living.

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

At Penn State, I ran distance and cross country as a walk-on. I wound up running a lot of marathons, 30-plus. I was okay. I won one in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I think it was around 2:30. I could crank those out all day.

People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win.

Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.

Sparky Lyle threw me a slider, and it wound up in the seats. We won, and it was a memorable moment.

I don't know how it plays in San Francisco. But I can tell you I came out, during a reelection campaign, in Indiana, while Mike Pence was the governor. And I wound up winning reelection by 80 percent.

I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I win it, someone else wins it.

You have to beat your opponent, otherwise you get to walk home with a black eye and wounded pride.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

When you step out of the team environment you think, 'Wow, I'm England captain and we've just won the Ashes.'

When I was drafted by Chicago, I said, 'Wow, it would be nice to play with those guys.' I knew I'd have an automatic chance to win a championship.