Motivational Quotes

Winners and winning

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

- Fidrych, Mark

Best Quotes about Winners and winning

Remember that the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Woods, Harriet

Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

Sun Tzu

The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses.

Ward, William A.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.

Morrison, Van

Winning is not a sometime thing; It's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.

Lombardi, Vince

If you can accept losing you can't win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.

Lombardi, Vince

Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.

Win or lose, playing at all is winning.

Nording, Wolfgang

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There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

Lombardi, Vince

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Winning tastes good.

Killy, Jean Claude

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It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Bryant, Bear

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There are no winners, only survivors.

Gifford, Frank

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Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.

Benton, D A

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Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Polybius

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Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

Shakespeare, William

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One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

Waitley, Denis

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To finish first, you must first finish.

Mears, Rick

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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Ziglar, Zig

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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

Runyon, Damon

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Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.

Ali, Muhammad

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I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

Woods, Tiger

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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

Jenner, Bruce

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Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

Wooden, John

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If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

Mckeithen, Jan

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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

Madden, John

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The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.

Letterman, Alymer

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The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

Pletcher, Barbara

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I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

Daly, John

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For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

Smith, Emmitt

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I've learned that you don't have to win first place to win.

Zmeskal, Kim

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Another club can be beating you for six innings but for some reason the good ball clubs get tough and win them in the last three.

Martin, Billy

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All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

Lombardi, Vince

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If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Evert, Chris

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The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Lombardi, Vince

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A winner never whines.

Brown, Paul

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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

Phillips, Bum

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A winner loses more often than losers.

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Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Trump, Donald

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The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

Picabia, Francis

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If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

Owens, Jesse

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We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak.

Geddes, Sir Eric

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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Bronowski, Jacob

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They always win who side with God.

Faber, Frederick W.

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Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.