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Quotes About Victory

What the public sees is my successes... Yes, I've won competitions and I've done unbelievable baseball, but a lot of those times, I failed more often than not.
~ Eddy Alvarez
I'm going to take Barrera out in devastating style with unbelievably hard shots. He's tailor-made for me, and I will fit him with a suit to wear on the canvas.
~ Naseem Hamed
You have to bring this ball over this line and into this rectangle. It is not like synchronised swimming, where you are judged by your unbelievably beautiful performance.
~ Daniel Farke
'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.
~ Louis Zamperini
John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.
~ Robert Dallek
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
~ Arthur Wellesley
Sports is like a war without the killing.
~ Ted Turner
Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
~ Sun Tzu
Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.
~ Sun Tzu
Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.
~ Sarah Palin
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
~ George Orwell
Victory is the main object in war.
~ Sun Tzu
According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?
~ Sun Tzu
In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.
~ Sun Tzu
Fight to the last gasp.
~ William Shakespeare
The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.
~ Kim Young-sam
Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.
~ James Lawrence
I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.
~ Peter Forsberg
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
~ Agatha Christie
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
~ Alexander Pope
One bad general is worth two good ones.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte