
Top 48 I Play Only To Win Quotes
#1. The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.
Thomm Quackenbush
#2. Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.
Emile Francis
#3. Life is a magnificent and magical game. To win, play with utmost care and profound love.
Debasish Mridha
#4. I havent won on my birthday since college, so its good to play hard and get a win by double figures.
Chris Bosh
#5. 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
#6. Everyone in my life thinks I'm competitive because I want to win, but it comes from me wanting everyone to have a good time. And when I see that people aren't enthused, I try to make it really uncomfortable for everyone so they get enthused and want to play hard.
Christina Applegate
#7. You have to play defense, that's how you win.
Peter Bondra
#8. On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.
Aaron Lauritsen
#9. Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!
Herb Brooks
#10. If I win and play well, then the ranking will take care of itself. Defending points is really not a problem. Just go out and play and not worry about it.
Pete Sampras
#11. Play to win because almost doesn't cut it.
Ana Monnar
#12. We win, we loose, we will play like champions.
Endeavor
#13. I'm ready to lose my life if that's what Portugal needs to win. I'll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#14. It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
Jack Buck
#15. With my beloved I play the game of love .
If I win, he is mine. If I lose I am his...
Amir Khusro
#16. I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play.
Kobe Bryant
#17. I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
Bobby Fischer
#18. I don't play to lose, only to win or learn. Mostly learn.
Mark Rude
#19. Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.
Novak Djokovic
#20. I play to win and if it looks like I've lost, its only because its not over yet.
Kiera Dellacroix
#21. If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.
Tiger Woods
#22. Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes. The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
Bob Hope
#23. That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
Drew Bledsoe
#24. We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.
Carmelo Anthony
#26. I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
David Ortiz
#27. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
Judith McNaught
#28. Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.
Derrick Rose
#29. The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.
Bobby Fischer
#30. You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.
Duke Snider
#31. You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them.
Sania Mirza
#32. I want to consistently play well and win titles. I'm only at the beginning.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#33. Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.
Rose Macaulay
#34. 1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.
Jack Nicklaus
#35. All I can do is go out there and play hard and try and help my team win, and that's what I'm going to keep doing.
Brian Urlacher
#36. The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#37. I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.
Snoop Dogg
#38. By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.
Margaret Bourke-White
#39. 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
#40. My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
Larry Bird
#41. Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.
John C. Maxwell
#43. You win one and then you win another. You feel more comfortable and more confident, and it snowballs. You can't wait to get to the next hole and play better.
Vijay Singh
#44. Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.
Irving Chernev
#45. No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability
did he win?
Charles Lever
#46. I play every game to win, it is not in my nature to throw a game.
Heyneke Meyer
#47. So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.
David Baldacci
#48. We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.
Jeaniene Frost
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