Quotes About Victory

Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.

I think people just love to win.

I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Ramona grabbed the book. "It's mine. I told you it was mine!" Then she turned to Beezus and said triumphantly, "You said people didn't buy books at the library and now you just bought one!

And Sandra, she knew from her experience with the fly spray, was ruthless. "You don't know it." There was triumph in Sandra's voice. "I know something you don't

struggled into their wraps

a taxing slog for an old puffed-out flubba-wubba like me, but worth it for the view, which was sensational—like being on top of the world.

In a sense William Shakespeare's greatest achievement in life wasn't writing Hamlet or the sonnets but just surviving his first year.

properispomenon.

don't become paralyzed, and they do indeed sometimes

pyrrhic victory is not, as is sometimes thought, a hollow triumph. It is one won at a huge cost to the victor.

Mourn your losses later, after the fight's over, Sergeant Melton used to say. When you're in the fight, fight.

in a gunfight there is no second place winner

When the enemy gets to your citadel, your prided epicenter, everything's in play.

We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue-- or they win ! No, when you become smarter and less gluttonous, you win. We all win!

The only important statistic is the final score.

he intended to exploit as best he could the traditional rivalries, for that was one of the best things the league had going for it, genuine rivalries in which the players themselves participated. Those rivalries, Boston-Philly, New York–Baltimore, needed no ballyhoo; the athletes themselves were self-evidently proud and they liked nothing better than to beat their opponents

the Lakers unleashed an all-time Keyser Söze run in April, winning 23 of their last 24 and coming within an OT loss in the Finals of sweeping the entire playoffs.41 So if we're trying to find the most invincible team of all time

fact, the '01 Lakers swept a 50-win Blazers team (that nearly beat them the previous spring), a 55-win Kings team (that almost beat them 12 months later), and a 58-win Spurs team (that won three titles in the next six years),43 then came within an overtime loss of sweeping the 56-win Sixers

By the time Payton had finished whipping him like a dominatrix, Stockton was thirty-four and heading toward the twilight of his career.

They destroyed every playoff opponent and set a record for postseason point differential that still stands.