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Quotes About Winning

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone's wallets.
~ Terry Pratchett, Snuff
There's no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!
~ Mel Brooks
A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.
~ Eric Berne
You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
~ Neil Peart
Second place is just the first place loser.
~ Dale Earnhardt
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 team with the best players wins.
~ Jack Welch
Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
If you end up getting into a fight with someone, make sure that you win by at least half a mile.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.
~ Michael Jordan
Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.
~ James Spithill
I know If I score we're going to win the match.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.
~ Colin Powell
Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.
~ Jason Giambi
Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.
~ Alex Ferguson
It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.
~ Andy Roddick
Life isn't fair, " comes the voice of Nana. She has told me that a thousand times. "What matters is how you handle it." I'm going to handle it by winning.
~ Carolyn Lee Adams, Ruthless
You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.
~ Ayrton Senna
Winning" is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.
~ Denis Waitley
Gates loved competing- and winning. Just as importantly, he hated losing. He thrived on competition, as long as he was playing or doing something he was good at, and relished opportunities to prove himself, physically and mentally.
~ James Wallace
I lived to learn that in the world of sport all men win alike, but lose differently;
~ James Weldon Johnson
There are no second-place finishers—you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser—nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.
~ Jamie Smith
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
~ Jane Wagner