WINNING QUOTES II

quotations about winning

Winning quote

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.

PHIL JACKSON

Sacred Hoops

Tags: Phil Jackson


Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

TERRY PRATCHETT

Witches Abroad


Slow and steady wins the race.

AESOP

"The Tortoise and the Hare", Aesop's Fables

Tags: Aesop


Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

JOHN PAUL JONES

letter to the American commissioners to France, February 10, 1778


Oh, them winning is all of us losing.

ADAM DAVIDSON

"Turning the Housing Bubble into Movie Magic in The Big Short", Boise Weekly, February 22, 2016


I'm so tired of pretending my life isn't perfect and bitching and just winning every second.

CHARLIE SHEEN

The Alex Jones Show, February 24, 2011


For a team that was used to winning silverware year in year out, close to year without winning is such a long time.

NDYAMUHAKI EMANZI

"VVC win KIU Open to revive winning touch", Kawowo Sports, April 11, 2017


Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

MUHAMMAD ALI

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

Tags: Muhammad Ali


Sports are set up as a "zero" sum game. Someone wins and someone loses. Most would agree that Americans like to win. Our whole society seems set up on a competitive matrix. It starts well before Little League age and extends into adulthood and beyond.

MARK HOPKINS

"The president says, 'Get used to winning'", Northwest Florida Daily News, March 29, 2017


When people know what winning is, and they have a scoreboard to look at, and understand what they get when the team wins, they respond. The others just watch the clock until it is time to go home.

KEN KELLER

"Learning from Super Bowl Winners", The Santa Clarita Valley Signal, February 6, 2016


Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers.

MARK GORMAN

attributed, Living Your Best Life Now: Maximizing Your Potential


I've always been on winning teams, so I just have that winning mentality and I want to win every game.

ELLEN NYSTROM

"The CSU Rams' record-breaking streak is only the beginning of a new era", Mile High Sports, February 18, 2016


In this life, you have winners and losers. the more you win, the higher you go.

DANIEL NAYERI

Another Faust


Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

LADY GAGA

Lady Gaga: Born This Way


For ... any great athlete, really -- winning is the only thing that matters, the only thing that anyone remembers.

PAUL NEWBERRY

"Where is the urgency, Sergio?", Sauk Valley, April 7, 2017


Winning is everything. Nothing is presidential except victory.

DONALD TRUMP

"It turns out Donald Trump is not an Artist of the Deal", Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2017


When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.

LANCE ARMSTRONG

Every Second Counts


Winning is part of the process of living your potential but winning in a way that tarnishes your image or crashes your soul is not a good win by any means. Winning in a productive way is ensuring that you are building the right relationships and treating people right in your bid to get what you want.

VERA AMA NG'OMA

Peak Persona: Put the Power of Your Potential to Work


Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.

GEORGE ADE

Fables in Slang

Tags: George Ade


You win ballgames, and a lot of good things happen from there. Fans start showing up. Nobody is ever in a bad mood when you are winning. You can come up and slap me in the face, if we have won 10 in a row, I will laugh at it. Winning does a lot of things for teams and comrades in arms, energy and good feelings.

CHRIS SALE

"Chris Sale Yearns To Pitch In Postseason", CBS Chicago, February 20, 2016