Motivational Quotes

Winners and winning

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.

- Walker, Addison

Best Quotes about Winners and winning

To finish first, you must first finish.

Mears, Rick

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

Dane, Frank

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

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident.

Kerrigan, Nancy

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Bird, Larry

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

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

Namath, Joe

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Brooks, Mel

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

Letterman, Alymer

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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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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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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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Ever notice that people never say It's only a game when they're winning?

Ball, Ivern

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Evert, Chris

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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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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Tracy, Brian

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Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.

Gray, Albert

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If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Long, Shelley

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A winner never whines.

Brown, Paul

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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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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

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

Woods, Harriet

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Win or lose, playing at all is winning.

Nording, Wolfgang

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

Zmeskal, Kim

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It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.

Walker, Addison

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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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I'm a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Foreman, George

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

Perry, Fred

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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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Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.

Unser, Bobby

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The only way to be number one is to be number one.

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Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

Csonka, Larry

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

Runyon, Damon

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

Phillips, Bum

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

Mckeithen, Jan

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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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There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

Brown, Les

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Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.

Symons, Red

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

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From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

Riley, Pat