Quotes About Victory

In 2012, we had just won the league with City, and I was really high on confidence going into the Euros when I picked up an injury, which meant I couldn't go.

I never picked an opponent.

I told Gamboa he picked the wrong fighter and the wrong city, and I was right. I never felt any danger in the fight.

In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.

When I found out that I was picked to be on 'The Ultimate Fighter,' my first thought is that my dream had come true.

The 1994 midterms had been a shocking rout for the GOP, which picked up 54 seats in the House and eight in the Senate. No one had seen it coming. The Democratic Congress was supposed to be a permanent fact of life; it had been 40 years since Republicans had controlled the chamber.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

Because I've been around the MMA block a little bit, I'm at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I'm past the point in my career where I'm picking and choosing.

You have to bump or throw a block sometimes. Even when it goes wrong, how many times has it worked? I think it's a matter of picking and choosing your battles. You gotta do what you've gotta do to try to get a win.

Football's a war game without fatal casualties; baseball is a picnic on a huge field, without the food.

If we win, everybody gets a piece of the pie.

Everybody wants to come out and win the gold, and sometimes it takes a personal best, sometimes it doesn't. But to be able to have all those pieces come together, it's a great feeling.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

From playing with the guys that I played with, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, I learned a lot about the game. I learned how to finish games.

Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you're fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

Sometimes you get the pinball machine and sometimes the pinball machine gets you.

I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.

'Pretty In Pink' was a huge hit for me.

After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.

I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

In my career, if you follow my career and watched everything that I've ever done from the time I was in high school to where I'm at now, I've always been able to reach the pinnacle. In football, I was able to win championships and go to bowl games in college, be an All-American linebacker, and there were a lot of things I was able to accomplish.

No question, when you're talking about Grand Slams, they're the pinnacle of the game, and that's what I want to be winning.

Winning the Open in general would mean the world to me. It's the one championship that I've dreamed about winning more than any other, because you know it's the pinnacle of golf for a British player and I think to do it at St Andrews? It doesn't get any better than that.