Motivational Quotes

Winners and winning

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

Best Quotes about Winners and winning

There are no winners, only survivors.

Gifford, Frank

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Woods, Tiger

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

Morrison, Van

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

Shakespeare, William

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

Phillips, Bum

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

Namath, Joe

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Winning tastes good.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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

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

Zmeskal, Kim

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Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.

Symons, Red

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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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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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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

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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

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

Csonka, Larry

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

Dane, Frank

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

Allen, George E.

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If winning (success) was easy, then everybody would be doing it. It's the hard that makes it great!

Movie, A League of Their Own

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Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Evert, Chris

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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

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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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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Ashe, Arthur

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Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Bryant, Bear

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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

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There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Brooks, Mel

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

Unser, Bobby

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Foreman, George

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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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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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A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits

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

Mckeithen, Jan