Quotes About Victory

There's something really fun about being a kicker. Once you get to 200 to go and you're still with those girls, you smell blood.

Winning is the deodorant of the game, it covers all bad smells.

I have a smile on my face because I am back on the pitch.

For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

A smile is better when you win.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

It took a long time for me to put a smile on my face over the course of my lifetime, and my experience of what I've been through on and off the field.

I don't know what other fighters do, but when I get hit and go down, I smile and I say, 'I'm going to hit you harder than you hit me, and I'm going to knock you out.' The times I go down and get back up - that's when I'm the most dangerous.

After you have won a game, you can maybe smile for a minute and then you have to think: 'How can I recover as quickly as possible.'

Mary Peters. When I was having my sulky, stroppy, bad loser phase I watched her at the Olympics. Sometimes she failed but always with a smile and good grace. She taught me how to win and lose, and I have a photo taken with her in my lounge.

The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

When I get in the cage I am smiling because I am having fun.

The highs in my career have been overcoming the problems and smiling at them and getting on.

On that court, ain't no such thing as friends and smiling and everything like that.

Some people actually pay bills with their win bonuses. If you don't win, there isn't anyone in the dressing-room smiling or joking or saying, 'Oh, there's always the next game.' In those lower divisions, losing actually hurts people and affects lives.

I'm just going to go through Anthony Smith, I want to get that W, beat him, and just look for the next challenge basically.

I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

I'm confident a good Liam Smith beats a good John Thompson.

You gotta be ready in this game. Like when Michael Bisping knocked out Luke Rockhold. I thought... everybody thought that Luke Rockhold would go out there and just smoke him and then Luke Rockhold got clipped.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.

'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

If I didn't have a great right hook, the bigger, heavier fighters would grind me down and smother me.