Top 100 Game Winning Quotes
#1. I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe Bryant
#2. So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
Bobby Knight
#3. I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.
Mike Krzyzewski
#4. I'd rather just stay quiet and play the game. Winning is hard enough as it is.
Tony Gonzalez
#5. As great as it is to turn a monster caber, hit the game winning homerun, cause a fumble or clear a PR in weight over bar, there's a more amazing feeling. It's a feeling of victory ... true victory. This victory is eternal life through Jesus Christ.
Daniel McKim
#6. I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot ... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - MICHAEL JORDAN
Frank Luntz
#7. I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
#8. Squeal like a cheerleader named prom queen, aging retiree placing the game-winning bingo button, frenzied fan finding Johnny Depp in her supermarket.
Dennis Vickers
#9. I want to be the guy who catches the game-winning touchdown.
Hines Ward
#10. What goes through my head when I'm going to take a game-winning shot is ... I better make it. Don't be afraid of the moment.
Stephen Curry
#11. Behind every one of Michael Jordan's heart stopping buzzer beating spine scintillating game winning shots, lie the corpses of a thousand missed childhood driveway shots.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#12. If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.
Casey Stengel
#13. Once you really understand your role ... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
C. Thomas Howell
#15. You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.
Cam Newton
#16. Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth
James De La Vega
#17. As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run ... What an interest it imparts to life!.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#18. If Russell Wilson wins this game ... He starts to creep into the conversation of how we talk about Tom Brady, how we talk about Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Aaron Rodgers.
Marshall Faulk
#19. I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.
Bill Gross
#20. It's always good to be recognized being the best new cat and then when I hold down my position and stay in the game for a minute, I want to see what kind of (expletive) I'm winning then.
Wiz Khalifa
#21. Did you lose the game? Losing's the same as winning; you know that, don't you?" The
Ira Levin
#22. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck
Sanhita Baruah
#23. It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.
Elizabeth Warren
#24. There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past.
Rodney Harrison
#25. Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.
Mark Cuban
#26. Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'
Shaquille O'Neal
#27. Do you ever wish you knew the answers on jeopardy ahead of time so you could win a million dollars too? A coach gives you that kind of edge. And instead of a TV game show you'll be winning at life.
Michael McGovern
#28. Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time
William Shakespeare
#29. You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.
Jack Nicklaus
#30. I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.
Alex Rodriguez
#31. Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
Arthur Ashe
#32. In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.
Lev Polugaevsky
#33. We may still have as many questions after the game as we did before the game. But that's OK. Good teams answer their questions as they go, but they do it with wins. We didn't get it done last week - we found a way to get it done this week.
Greg Schiano
#34. Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.
Nick Saban
#35. If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.
Mariano Rivera
#36. When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.
Carmelo Anthony
#37. My biggest thing is to improve my all-around game. If you don't win, something's wrong. Winning takes care of everything, so our biggest thing is winning.
Derrick Rose
#38. What's the point of massive achievement if your life has no balance? And what's the point of winning the game if you never take the time to celebrate and appreciate the life you have? There's nothing worse than a rich person who's chronically angry or unhappy.
Anthony Robbins
#39. It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.
Jack Charlton
#40. No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability
did he win?
Charles Lever
#41. I play every game to win, it is not in my nature to throw a game.
Heyneke Meyer
#42. I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.
Bob Cousy
#43. The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.
Iyanla Vanzant
#44. Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.
J. Paul Getty
#45. News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.
John Oliver
#46. Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.
Tracy Austin
#47. We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy - not for the money, but for the glory of winning.
Kid Nichols
#48. A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#49. I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game.
Ice-T
#50. In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
Anita Brookner
#51. You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.
Sourav Ganguly
#53. Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American ... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956 ... But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.
John Eliot
#55. Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.
Bill Parcells
#56. Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.
LeBron James
#57. It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
Floyd Abrams
#58. The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
Anatoly Karpov
#59. The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.
Whitey Herzog
#60. The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.
Todd Helton
#61. Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.
Derek Jeter
#62. In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.
Chuck Noll
#63. We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.
Barry Alvarez
#64. I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.
Randy Carlyle
#65. To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#66. One game can make a season, especially when you have just four wins going into the game.
Bob Dwyer
#67. Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.
Noel Whittaker
#68. You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness
Brad Stevens
#69. It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.
Rory McIlroy
#70. That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.
R. K. Milholland
#71. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Karl Lagerfeld
#72. We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.
Mia Hamm
#73. You play to win the game ... Hello. You play to win the game.
Herman Edwards
#74. You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#75. Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game
Nick Saban
#76. The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.
Tony La Russa
#77. It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.
Henry Samueli
#79. Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot
#80. Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#81. Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.
David Schmidtz
#82. Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.
George H. W. Bush
#83. This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.
Wilt Chamberlain
#84. Some people prefer to see the game in the television than to go to the stadium. With virtual reality this will go to be worse, but at the end the "real" reality will win, because a virtual meal is not the same thing as a real one!
Rodolfo Llinas
#85. What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.
Kevin Kelly
#86. If you keep your team in the game and give them a chance to win each and every start, what could be better than that? That, to me, is my main goal.
Mark Mulder
#87. I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.
Michael Jordan
#88. In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning ... In life the loser's score is always zero.
W. H. Auden
#89. To me, it's always what's next and I think that's what drives most very successful people. It's never about the money. I mean that's a way of keeping score. It's about achievement and it's about winning a game and it's about upping the ante.
Donny Deutsch
#90. Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination.
Fred Reinfeld
#91. That is the way this game is
you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.
Vin Scully
#92. It just a fun game, until someone starts to win and then everyone else begins to cheat!
Andrew James Pritchard
#93. I'm at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don't freak out ... I don't think we can call it a rivalry yet. There's just to many great players around.
Roger Federer
#94. Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do
Maurice Ashley
#95. The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.
Frederick Lenz
#96. You didn't win the game of life by losing the least. That would be one of those-what were they called again?-Pyrrhic victories. Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later.
Tommy Wallach
#98. It isn't about winning a game, it about fixing what's broken.
Bob Harper
#99. Sometimes, you lose (a game) and sometimes the other team wins.
Otto Rehhagel
#100. The first game was different but tonight we were just worried about getting ourselves back on track. It's another loss. We've got to keep going, keep trying to get out of this and win on Saturday.
Dany Heatley
