Winning Quotes - Page 125

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them, neither make money nor stop spending it, neither stop immigration nor assimilate the immigrants. Washington can beat its thumb with a hammer, yes, and notice that it hurts, but it can't stop beating its thumb. That would take a decision, and Washington doesn't do decisions.

You've got to be tough to win.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

There's only one rule: The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins. Period. Because you won't die. Even though you feel like you'll die, you don't actually die. Like when you're training, you can always do one more. Always. As tired as you might think you are, you can always, always do one more.

Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.

It doesn't matter what kind of result will be in the end. I already win for myself.

During one of the 4th quarter huddles, LeBron said to him, 'It doesn't matter what happens to this point. No one is going to remember how many points you had or what type of game you had. Just help us make some plays to win this thing.' And he made some big plays.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.