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Quotes About Winning

There would be nothing more thrilling than to win a championship.
~ Stan Kroenke
I thrive on competition.
~ Natalie Massenet
I have an innate passion and competitive streak to win and to create, and I want our team to be better than everybody else. Some people thrive in that environment, and some people don't.
~ Nancy Dubuc
If you buy a lottery ticket, you really don't expect to win. However, if you do win, it's a different story. The same is true about getting an Oscar. Of course I knew I was nominated, but I never expected my name to be called. When it was, I'm still at a loss to describe the feelings that I experienced.
~ George Chakiris
The shootout after overtime is a great idea, so nobody goes home with a tie.
~ Joe Thornton
To me, going for a tie means kicking the extra point for a tie instead of going for a two-point conversion to win.
~ Ara Parseghian
For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.
~ George Vecsey
"The game is done! I've won, I've won!"Quoth she, and whistles thrice.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Succession planning has been a major priority at Southwest for quite some time. We think we have come up with a winning combination of talent for our company reorganization.
~ Herb Kelleher
You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.
~ Jose Mourinho
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
~ Aldous Huxley
I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.
~ Taylor Hackford
Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
~ Chris Evert
I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.
~ Greg Egan
If you're not terrified, you're not going to win. You have to ride right up to the edge of control and not make any mistakes that cost you time.
~ Charlie Kelly
I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
~ Oleg Deripaska
Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Because, he said in an even voice, you're used to winning, so you don't even think about how, every time there's a game, both sides get that 'rah, rah, team' speech from their coaches both sides hear 'you're the best!' 'You've got to win!' 'You're the greatest!' But half of the people playing that game are going to walk away losers. Half!
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Winning isn't everything, Eisenhower said faintly. Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
What's the point of massive achievement if your life has no balance? And what's the point of winning the game if you never take the time to celebrate and appreciate the life you have? There's nothing worse than a rich person who's chronically angry or unhappy.
~ Anthony Robbins
Okay, now you know the players that belong in your allocation buckets, and you know the key to building a winning team: diversify, diversify, diversify!
~ Anthony Robbins
The rules of rebalancing don't guarantee you're going to win every time. But rebalancing means you're going to win more often. It increases your probabilities of success. And probabilities through time are what dominate the success or failure of your investment life.
~ Anthony Robbins
The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
~ Anthony Trollope