Quotes About Victory In Sports

#1. The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365.

Mark Cuban

#2. The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle.

#3. People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit total control of all the elements that lead to victory. - total composure.

Jean-Claude Killy

#4. Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Max Euwe

#5. Thank God for today's grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I pray not for victory, but to do my best.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

#7. I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.

Eddie Griffin

#8. Laws are silent in time of war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. No man who really is a man ever cared for the easy task. There is no enjoyment in the game that is easily won. It is that in which you have to strain every muscle and sinew to achieve victory that provides real joy.

Eric Liddell

#10. What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

Rahul Dravid

#11. In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Eric Liddell

#12. I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

Tom Osborne

#13. For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.

Meghan Daum

#14. Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Bo Jackson

#15. It's a huge challenge for us to get the (43) car back to Victory Lane, to get the car in the Chase, to get back to where I would love to see us win the championship, ... Is it a reality next year You've seen a lot of things happen in the sport and you look at it and ask 'How'd that happen'

Robbie Loomis

#16. Victory with honor and integrity is the real goal of sport. Sometimes it happens that others are better than you. I could never beat Carl Lewis in a hundred-yard dash, but my victory might be in running faster today than I did yesterday.

Don Sparks

#17. I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise ... it's a consistent reward for victory!

Sasha Azevedo

#18. There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

Dan Gable

#19. In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Winning does not always mean coming in first ... real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

Apolo Ohno

#21. A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh." Genesis 2:24

William Batson

#22. Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Thomas Jefferson

#23. A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

James C. Collins

#24. I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship.

George W. Bush

#25. It's amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, defeat, friendship, fatigue, elation ... they're all there, but only to the person who's worn the uniform

Wendelin Van Draanen

#26. I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Zora Neale Hurston

#27. Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

John Kessel

#28. This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

Frances E. Willard

#29. but for mine own part, it was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare

#30. Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

Bill Bowerman

#31. A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat ... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.

Bill Bradley

#32. Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

Vicente Del Bosque

#33. It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.

Andre Bramble