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Quotes About Winning

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.
~ O. J. Simpson
I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.
~ Tony McCoy
Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.
~ David Dreman
I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.
~ Martin Sheen
The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
~ Molly Ivins
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
~ Bill Shankly
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
~ Oscar Wilde
Winning takes more than effort, it takes ability to sustain, patience and above all self motivation.
~ Unknown
Believing in yourself is the secret to success. Have faith in your abilities! If you believe in yourself and have dedication, determination and never quit attitude, you'll be a winner.
~ Anil Sinha
Steroids is cheating, and winning without honor is not winning.
~ Curt Schilling
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
~ George Ade
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, youre the best.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
~ Bill Watterson
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
~ Mark B. Cohen
you can either avoid making mistakes and play not to lose, or you can make the most of every opportunity and play to win.
~ Mark Batterson
The secret impetus behind legalism is its competitiveness. The point is not just to win: it's to beat everyone else.
~ Mark Buchanan
Why wouldn't someone want to win? It's really not a question of what someone wants, because I believe that all traders want to win. Yet, there are often conflicts about winning. Sometimes these conflicts are so powerful that we find our behavior is in direct conflict with what we want. These conflicts could stem from religious upbringing, work ethic or certain types of childhood trauma.
~ Unknown
Everyone who trades ends up learning something about the markets; very few people who trade ever learn the attitudes that are absolutely essential to becoming a consistent winner.
~ Unknown
If you have to win, if you have to be right, if you can't lose or can't be wrong, you will cause yourself to define and perceive categories of market information as painful.
~ Unknown
The key to winning is poise under stress. —PAUL BROWN, THE LATE COACH OF THE CLEVELAND BROWNS AND CINCINNATI BENGALS
~ Mark Goulston
You can't win a game if you don't score any points.
~ John Madden
People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.
~ Jonah Hill
If you wagered $5,000 on each of my winning NFL picks in 2012 and $500 ($550) on each of my losing picks, you'd be ahead $70,050. Wow.
~ Norman Chad
I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.
~ Steven Wright