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Quotes About Winning

Pressure will squeeze whining out of losers and winning out of achievers.
~ Orrin Woodward
You must believe to see, see to do, do to improve, and improve consistently to win; therefore, believing is the key to winning.
~ Orrin Woodward
one of the more unfortunate side effects is that much apologetics has lost touch with evangelism and come to be all about "arguments," and in particular about winning arguments rather than winning hearts and minds and people. Our urgent need today is to reunite evangelism and apologetics, to make sure that our best arguments are directed toward winning people and not just winning arguments, and to seek to do all this in a manner that is true to the gospel itself.
~ Os Guinness
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.
~ Pat Conroy
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
~ Pat Riley
was in a battle for my soul, and the evil spirit that was trying to possess me has been, very slowly, winning." He smiled broadly, raised his glass at Anna, and said, "Until today.
~ Patricia Briggs
The abuser's worth is derived from a sense of one-upmanship and winning over. If the partner accomplishes something, the abuser views her accomplishment
~ Unknown
She was...disarming.
~ Patrick Marber
Cuz that's it - That's the nasty, nasty secret of war - When yer winning - When yer winning, it's effing thrilling -
~ Patrick Ness
I won the only duel I ever lost.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He gestured at the brief and brutal lay of stones between us. "Look at that. Why would I ever want to win a game such as this?" I looked down at the board. "The point isn't to win?" I asked. "The point," Bredon said grandly, "is to play a beautiful game." He lifted his hands and shrugged, his face breaking into a beatific smile. "Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
~ Patrick Rothfuss
But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.
~ Paul Auster
In stories of the good and bad it's only the good who are subject to dreadful luck, mischance and blundering. The bad are always sharp and act with discipline, have cunning plans only just thwarted in the nick of time. The evil are always on the cusp of winning ways.
~ Paul Hoffman
Philosophers and poets may be truth seekers. Lawyers only want to win.
~ Paul Levine
Heads, you win. Tails, he loses.
~ Paul Stewart
You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.
~ Paul Westphal
The animals were like a storm moving whole, and then breaking, every strategy falling away, all caution gone. In the last few furlongs, nothing mattered but legs and length. Dynasty sailed through the final contenders and gained on the favourite, who seemed to stand still for her alone. She ran as if she were flying. As if she were dreaming the win, or winning in someone else's dream. Then her nose was at the tape. The crowd exploded. She'd done it. I
~ Paula McLain
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
~ Pele
The hardest thing about winning is trying to do so without losing something of greater importance.
~ Unknown
but Yakima beat him to it.
~ Unknown
the modern age the definition of a "racist" is a conservative who is winning an argument.
~ Peter Brimelow
The modern definition of a racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
~ Peter Brimelow
There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.
~ Peter Guber