Quotes About Winning

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

Here's the deal: when conservatives lose elections, they change their strategy. When liberals lose elections, they want to change the rules.

Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

I'm a pro sports gambler. You have winning days and you have losing days. But you know if you've got the right strategy, you're going to get it in the end.

I kind of didn't look at anyone else's strategy for 'Jeopardy!' I thought, I'm going to build this from the ground up... If I had never seen a 'Jeopardy!' game played before, what would I have to do to play it to maximize my winnings, maximize my chances of winning?

I sketched out what I believed to be my optimal strategy for 'Jeopardy:' Play fast, build a stack, bet big, and hope for the best. In my mind, playing a seemingly risky game actually minimizes my chances of losing.

Boxing is like any other sport, like football, basketball, whatever, where there's a strategy you stick to in order to win.

I look at a streak as I don't lose - literally.

I have a competitive streak.

It is the most important thing we can do to establish a promotion, is to establish the championship. It is what everyone is trying to obtain, how do you obtain the championship? By establishing a run of matches, a streak, by winning a big match, winning a title eliminator.

It's funny. At one point you've got a 14-game winning streak and people doubt you, then you lose one game and people doubt you even more.

There's no man on the planet that has a five-fight win streak that isn't confident.

I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.

We have a strict radio protocol and structure how our decisions are made. This is how we've won so many races.

There's certainly more chance of me winning 'Strictly' than having an affair with my dance partner, but you know, who knows?

It's strictly winning that is going to bring back the fan market.

The importance of hard work was a message I learned from my parents, and that is something I worked to pass on to my kids and grandchildren. Winning is important, and you should want to win, but the main priority is to strive to be the best.

Winning is important in this league. Just check your ego at the door. It's all about winning. That's what we all should be striving for.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

When you have the chance to finish off your opponent, you must do it. You shouldn't give them chances to come back.

Man, I never got to fight a ranked opponent at 155, and that wasn't because I wasn't winning.

A final is about winning. You can't wait for the opponent to be better than you, or let them start to play their football.