Quotes About Winning

Jay Wright is class personified. He wins with class, loses with dignity when he does, which is not often.

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.

It's tough to lose, but it's a lot tougher to lose knowing how good it is to win, how good it feels to win.

Now that I get to be more consistent with the winning, it's tougher for some people to say that I'm just a showman.

That's the toughest part about coaching, I think, is that the longer you're in it, the more winning becomes, 'Phew, I'm glad we won,' and the losing is like just the most brutal thing ever.

Winning a pro tournament is another step toward getting fights against higher-ranked opponents.

I think I should win every tournament I enter.

I just like winning every tournament that I play. All of them are important for me. Each has its own history, its own characteristic, but they are all important.

Every tournament I play in I fancy my chances of winning, so hopefully I can get through the first few rounds, find a bit of form and kick on.

I want to win every single tournament that I'm playing in.

I try to focus on more winning matches here and try to go forward rather than the ranking because is the first step, to win matches, getting far in tournament, and we see after.

There's no point going to a tournament if you don't want to win.

It's a massive thing to win the African Nations. It will go down in history. It was my first tournament with Nigeria, and winning it was a bonus for me; it was a good experience for me.

It's really, really cool when you win a tournament. And it's great for the people who go on the journey with you.

As a kid everyone has dreams of winning their ultimate tournament and being number one in the world.

The 'Halo' series is my favorite. Me and my friends actually played in tournaments and won some money doing that when we were younger.

I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win them.

In tournaments, you want to steal the blinds as cheaply as possible without risking a high percentage of your chips.

And my job is to look at the future of English cricket and develop a side that is capable of winning important series and tournaments in the next four years. And that is what I am going to concentrate on doing.

You have to beat the best if you want to win tournaments.

Playing only when you have a strong hand, also known as being a slave to the cards, is simply not the way to win tournaments.