Quotes About Victory

I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the guy didn't even show up.

I have wrestled in almost every tournament in the world. I've won the Olympics, NCAAs, and World Championships, but none of those can truly compare to the feeling I felt when I won my first and only state championship my senior year of high school.

In the Olympics, everything goes back to square one. The world champion or the world record holder or the ninth last year are fighting for the same medal, and you have got to go there like it was the first time.

2014 is a year I'll remember for a long time - it was definitely a breakthrough in my mind as well. Standing on the top step of the podium a few times was icing on the cake.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

You cannot win every year.

If I was to win the U.S. Open or something, I won't play again for the rest of the year.

I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.

As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties.

I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

No matter how many fights I got into, I was always the victor. I didn't like it, though. I remember being 12 years old, and I looked in the sky, and I said, 'God, I don't want to fight no more. I'm tired of fighting. I know what I want to do in my life, and fighting's not going to get me there.'

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.

There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.

I'd like to start a tradition of getting No. 1s - how 'bout that?

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Patrick Cote, that would be one way traffic. I'd destroy the guy.

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

I want to show people you can overcome a tragedy.

It got to the point the last time, at Texas, where every loss was a tragedy and every win was exhaling.