Quotes About Victory

The cross was God's critique of power—white power—with powerless love, snatching victory out of defeat.

Whether we're up 2-0 early in the second half, or we're up 1-0 with 10 minutes left in the game, my mind-set is the same when I come in the game. It's to help keep that lead, whatever way I can.

When you fight for the game, fight to win and then get the goal in the latter minutes, especially at Old Trafford, it's a wonderful, amazing feeling.

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.

Romo was a miracle.

I don't think I was a miracle man. Neither were Lou Holtz or Frank Leahy. We all found ways to win.

I had to fight, a lot of years, to be really proud of the person I see in the mirror and really love this person.

The day when I start a race without intending to win it, I won't be able to look at myself in the mirror.

I always write 'Fight' on the mirrors - that goes way back to the times when you had to fight apathy.

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

I hit big or I miss big.

When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.

If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.

The Ballon d'Or has never been something that I've missed.

A cup final is all about seizing the moment. You cannot put right a mistake or a missed opportunity the following week.

When I won the belt, I dominated Renan Barao, and they gave him an instant rematch within two months. And then he missed weight and they still gave him a rematch.

If I missed bronze by whisker, it was due to lack of experience.

A world championship medal on the road is something that I'm missing from my CV.

We didn't lose a game at home for two years. What are we missing? We have the product on the field. We're exciting.

I don't like to lose a 50/50, in the same way a striker doesn't like missing chances.

It's pretty satisfying to make it through a season, only missing one game year.

Every mission accomplished.