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Quotes About Challenges

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
~ Elgin Baylor
They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.
~ Jeremy London
As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.
~ Stefan Edberg
Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.
~ Steven Lopez
It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.
~ Rau'Shee Warren
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.
~ Nicholas Stern
Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.
~ Tom Kristensen
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
~ Bill James
As a driver you enjoy winning races, and if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip and tuck stuff.
~ Allan McNish
Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'
~ Joanne Harris
Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
~ Johan Cruyff
Wins and losses just blur into one as you move around the world playing matches.
~ Heather Watson
The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.
~ Chris Moneymaker
It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningful return when most of the wins coming out are perhaps below $100 million exits and the ones above are very few and far between.
~ Dave McClure
If you have a character who wins all the time - well, if you have a character that loses and wins, it makes him more alive. Bugs Bunny, for example, didn't always win.
~ Genndy Tartakovsky
Some failures should not overshadow all the wins.
~ Shikhar Dhawan
Actually, 2016 wasn't a good year for me, as I didn't get any wins. But I started to feel things would get better when I found out about the pregnancy. I'm very happy, this is a new chapter of my life and I'm sure I'll win and dedicate it to my daughter and my family.
~ Charles Oliveira
I remember sometimes a difficulty and I realise that it taught me something or it helped me later on. The difficulties in the past are the wins in the present.
~ Ederson
I read a statistic that in horse racing, the favourite only wins 12 per cent of their races. I'm not comparing myself to a horse or saying I'm the favourite - although my sister would say I can nag an awful lot - but nothing is guaranteed in sport. Anyone can step up and take what you perceive to be your place in the final.
~ Cate Campbell
As it turns out, 'I'm A Celebrity' was one of the best experiences of my life and I would say I grew as a person doing it. I'd say the same about the 'SAS: Who Dares Wins' show.
~ Wayne Bridge
I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.
~ Robin S. Sharma
They didn't say all wins in the NBA are all pretty.
~ Gilbert Arenas
If I want to pad the record, just fight pretenders, get a quick paycheck and keep moving on and racking up wins, that's not something I want to be known for.
~ Mikey Garcia