Quotes About Winning Is Not Important

#1. I tried to be the leader ... that was my aim. But it is important to know how to win and how to lose.

Vitali Klitschko

#2. Winning isn't the only goal, sometimes finishing is more important.

Katie Graykowski

#3. To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

Gerard Houllier

#4. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

Hilary Swank

#5. I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.

John Chaney

#6. Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

Andrew Shue

#7. You certainly get used to winning in general. Winning the Champions League is a very particular feeling, but it's really the journey that makes it special. Every journey that brings you toward a win is important.

Clarence Seedorf

#8. How a person wins and loses is much more important
than how much a person wins and loses.

Tom Krause

#9. The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

Michael Johnson

#10. Winning - that's the most important to me. It's as simple as that.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#11. 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

#12. Those that say it is the taking part and not the winning that is important are, for me, wrong. It is the other way round.

Tony Adams

#13. Markov's not important,' she said. 'I'm not important. You're not important. Winning the war, that's the only important thing.'
'No,' I said, 'I disagree. Markov was important. So am I and so are you. That's why we have to win.

David Benioff

#14. I think that that Davis Cup final made me much stronger mentally. And this preseason, I was working really hard. So today, I was really believing in myself that I can win the match anyway, that I'm going to five sets. That's so important, no, believe in yourself.

Fernando Verdasco

#15. But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

Ellen DeGeneres

#16. It is really important (to win). It's always like, "You should win; you should win," If I win, I've proven (it) to them ... It'd be pretty cool.

Michelle Wie

#17. You can always win points; winning people's respect is a lot more important.

John Flanagan

#18. For me, being memorable is more important than winning.

Ricki Lake

#19. While it is important to win, it's even more important to remain undefeated no matter what happens.

Daisaku Ikeda

#20. The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win.

Clint Smith

#21. Obviously, (winning the division) is big. To be No. 1 is always important..

Dirk Nowitzki

#22. Regardless of what happens, I still honor my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because at the end of the day, that's what's important, win or lose ... We need to get back to one nation under God, and be role models for kids,

Tim Tebow

#23. In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

Patricia Ireland

#24. Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

Nafisa Joseph

#25. It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

Mike Singletary

#26. I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.

Immortal Technique

#27. I think the way we played was as important as winning the title, the way we did it with the players and the fans enjoying it.

Manuel Pellegrini

#28. There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.

Greg Bear

#29. But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

Dennis Eckersley

#30. The important thing was that I got the win. It's good for confidence and the season.

Usain Bolt

#31. The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.

George M. Gilbert

#32. We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.

Tony Dungy

#33. When you love to run and you train hard enough to really feel it, running is all about freedom. Also, I find that sharing the value of our sport is very important. When I think back on my life, it isn't the winning that I remember so much, it's the people who I met through running.

Doris Brown Heritage

#34. He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game.

Sheri S. Tepper

#35. I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

Maurice Cowling

#36. Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness ... they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.

Maria Sharapova

#37. Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

Lawrence Frank

#38. Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

George Steinbrenner

#39. The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

Mike Singletary

#40. The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have to do is make people believe that what you have to say is relevant and important.

David Lloyd-Jones

#41. All the stats don't mean a thing if we don't get the win. The most important stat is the win. Nothing else really matters if you don't get the win.

Pau Gasol

#42. At a young age winning is not the most important thing ... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

Arsene Wenger

#43. There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

Bernhard Langer

#44. I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.

Bear Bryant

#45. I've been away from my two daughters at a very important time in their life.'I have missed most of Girl Scout cookie season.Last night Zahra, my youngest called me up and said :"Daddy how come we never sell the most cookies? How come Mrs. Dunn wins every year?"'

Chris Rock

#46. Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.

Sue Wicks

#47. Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.

Jonathan Haidt

#48. Most important to me is to play well and to win. That is what the fans want to see.

Trina Gulliver

#49. Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

Gary Neville

#50. The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.

Alex Ferguson

#51. Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.

Ken Landreaux

#52. Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.

Irene Nemirovsky

#53. I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.

Carlos Beltran

#54. Winning is not the most important thing; it's everything.

Vince Lombardi

#55. What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

John McEnroe

#56. What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it.

William Boyd

#57. I think competing is more important than winning. There have been a lot of times when I've teed it up and I didn't win but I felt like I competed. I felt like this was not my day, but I never gave up, and I tried on every shot, and then next week I'd go get them.

Juli Inkster

#58. These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.

Jerry Sloan

#59. We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or lose but how well you play the game." I used to think that was about sports, but as an adult, I realize what I create, do, etc., is more important than winning a prize.

Renee Lawless

#60. The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Pierre De Coubertin

#61. Wins and losses right now are important, but in reality it's the least of my concerns. My concern is to make sure than we give hope to anyone watching us. I am not going to judge this season on wins and losses.

Chris Scelfo

#62. Modi winning or not winning is not important. I can go home tomorrow & open a tea stall but the nation must not suffer.

Narendra Modi

#63. It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won.

M.F. Moonzajer

#64. Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

R.H. Blyth

#65. If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.

John Elway

#66. The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete ... not victory but combat ... not to have vanquished but to have fought well ... not winning but taking part ...

Pierre De Coubertin

#67. I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

Bill Veeck

#68. It's important for me to win the fight, but it's not the most important thing. The most important thing is to show people who spend their hard-earned money that they can be entertained by the way I fight.

Manny Pacquiao

#69. Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

Peter Richmond

#70. What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

Daniel Patrick Moynihan