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Quotes About Winning

He could only assume that he had just won. "So," continued Ford Prefect, "if you would just like to come over here and lie down …" "What?" said Mr. Prosser. "Ah, I'm sorry," said Ford, "perhaps I hadn't made myself fully clear. Somebody's got to lie in front of the bulldozers, haven't they? Or there won't be anything to stop them driving into Mr. Dent's house, will there?
~ Douglas Adams
The winning team shall be the first team that wins. Curiously
~ Douglas Adams
You mean that luck turns?' 'Exactly, Hastings. And that is where the gambler (and the murderer, who is, after all, only a supreme kind of gambler since what he risks is not his money but his life) often lacks intelligent anticipation. Because he has won he thinks he will continue to win! He does not leave the tables in good time with his pocket full.
~ Agatha Christie
Winning is you just have to be quick, you snooze you lose
~ Akhil Gupta
Kenzo had no grudge against the American victors, and he thought of saying, "Their appalling tattoos didn't keep them from winning the war.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
~ Apolo Ohno
Whether you're Michael Waltrip or Jeff Gordon or Richard Petty, you can't be the Daytona 500 champion without it having an impact on people around you. When I say that, I mean the race fans. They want to congratulate you for winning the biggest race of the year. It has changed people's perception of me.
~ Michael Waltrip
I'd go around Philadelphia and everybody still loved me. Until the Eagles won, I was the only champ they had.
~ Danny Garcia
I don't like the phrase 'face of the franchise.' I just want to be a part of it. I think we have a really good team. When we start winning games, it looks a lot better.
~ Jimmy Butler
You love the competitive one-on-one aspect, where you look across the net, and you're trying to beat your opponent. You're doing everything you physically can to win on that day.
~ Ashleigh Barty
As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.
~ Pete Gallego
I just know that I love football,and when I'm on the pitch, I want to win.
~ Arjen Robben
I was an athlete in college, and Wall Street likes athletes because they're very competitive people that are willing to do anything to win. So I got a job at Bear Stearns in the summer of 2007.
~ Michelle Wolf
If you're gonna win, you wanna beat the best.
~ Manila Luzon
If you want to be the champ, you've got to beat the champ.
~ Mark Hunt
Any race I go into, I've always got the attitude of throwing myself into and wanting nothing but No. 1.
~ Caroline Buchanan
The great player, so much of the greatness, in my mind, is in his heart and his head. It's not in his body, in his skill set. It comes from having great talent but wanting to mold that and fit it together into being special. And being special means winning championships.
~ George Karl
I have never gone into a competition wanting to lose. I have always gone in wanting to win.
~ Dale Steyn
It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about.
~ Lorrie Fair
Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.
~ Andrew Vachss
I used to work in a warehouse in Woodville North and we always used to take bets like most places do on Cup day... and I was lucky three years in a row. I always picked the right horse.
~ Guy Sebastian
The more games you win the warmer it gets in December.
~ Lee Corso
Our warriors and their families don't ask for much. But there are a few things we'd like. A commander-in-chief who speaks of winning wars and not merely ending wars, calls the enemy by its name, and draws red lines carefully but enforces them ruthlessly.
~ Tom Cotton
Perhaps winning requires that we love the game unconditionally. Life provides all the pieces. When I accepted certain parts of life and denied and ignored the rest, I could only see my life a piece at a time - the happiness of a success or a time of celebration, or the ugliness and pain of a loss or a failure I was trying hard to put behind me out of sight. But like the dark pieces of the puzzle, these sadder events, painful as they are, have proven themselves a part of something larger.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen