Quotes About Winning

I feel like I'm a competitor. I hate to lose.

I'm a competitor and I hate to lose.

As competitors, winning is what drives you.

Probably the No. 1 characteristic, if you want win championships, you've got to be great competitors. It's got to come naturally.

When you're not winning it's easy to complain!

When you are accustomed to winning, when you are used to winning, then afterwards you tend not to have the same level of concentration. Sometimes you go into the games thinking you have already won because you are so strong.

When you have no concerns in your mind you are able to win a lot of times, that's how I felt when we were able to win at Dortmund.

Sometimes there are the conditions for winning. Sometimes not.

Belichick's actually great. I wouldn't mind being the New England Patriots. They seem to win a lot. Four-game suspension here and there doesn't hurt nobody.

If you can improve your franchise, even if you're doing well, you're going to make that move. You just are - at least I am. It's about winning and winning the right way and trying to sustain success over a large period of time.

We have the talent in place, and I think if you are a Jaguars fan, you should be excited, and you should have some expectations that we're going to be a sustainable, winning organization now.

You balance sport and business by having a sustainable model for a club and by winning. Because winning makes people feel better.

I want to build a sustainable winning culture, in every facet.

Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984.

Some people say it is relaxing to fish. But not with me. I simply cannot switch off my competitive instincts.

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

Learning how to win comes with switching the onus of pressure away from yourselves and then seizing your moment.

I can't stand these guys who go into a game and can't wait to shake hands when the game is over, you know, nice game, all that.... For me, back in those days, when we lost, we got out of there. We're not congratulating them, we're figuring out, if we play them again, what are we gonna do to beat the hell out of them.

If you're keeping score, win.

If they think we got an edge, we got an edge.

If you're keeping score, win.

The money that has recently been won is called "house money" because in gambling parlance the casino is referred to as the house. Betting some of the money that you have just won is referred to as "gambling with the house's money," as if it were, somehow, different from some other kind of money. Experimental evidence reveals that people are more willing to gamble with money that they consider house money.

At this point, at least in the United States, it appears that our cultural meaning has pretty much shrunk down to this: it is all about winning. Then, once you win, it becomes all about consuming. I can discern no other underlying philosophy in the practical order of American life today. Of itself, such a worldview cannot feed the soul very well or very long, much less provide meaning and encouragement, or engender love or community.

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.