Quotes About Victories

Within a six-month period in 1935 and 1936, the Tigers, Red Wings, and Lions all captured titles as Detroit's own Joe Louis reigned as boxing's uncrowned champion. Detroit remains the only city to score the trifecta of a World Series, a Stanley Cup, and an NFL championship in one season.

If we can fight the tendency to let it become so familiar that we don't notice it, we can be challenged every week to remember that God doesn't want our bloody victories and that sacrifice doesn't really overcome our rivalries. At least for Christians, that crucifix should be the emblem of the end of violence.

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

career, his accomplishments, his victories, the kind of friend he was, and the kind of father, except her. But she did a good job. Most of the

Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low.

There are certain spiritual dynamics that happen in each watch. There are certain victories that are only gained during certain watches.

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.

Grant had begun to despise reporters, had grown weary of reading the fine exploits of the rebel armies, while his own victories were never "complete.

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

I've had five submissions in the first round. I have 3, 4, 5 knockouts. I've had decisions. I've had grinding fights.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

a little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.

An embittered Douglass declared the United States a tyranny, a nation of corrupted memory, abandoning its victories in favor of power, greed, racial fear, and pride.

You are finally the only person in control of your life. That does not mean it will be easy, but whatever mistakes you make, the injuries you suffer, and your victories are yours to own.

I just feel really good about my accomplishments. I haven't had, like, a party because a deal goes through or something like that. I don't know. I need to develop that - I need to have something that I do when things go right.

Most of the time I got knockouts in my amateur fights.

This acknowledging disposition in the governor made them all acknowledge, that he was truly "a man of an excellent spirit." In fine, the victories of an Alexander, an Hannibal, or a Caesar over other men, were not so glorious as the victories of this great man over himself, which also at last proved victories over other men.

Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.