Top 100 Win Quotes
#1. So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
Ralph Boston
#2. Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.
Stephen Kinzer
#3. TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.
Drew Carey
#4. Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
Morgan Freeman
#5. Anyone who is in Christ is strategically positioned to win the most coveted award in this business called life. He doesn't want you playing itty-bitty roles. He wants bright lights in your dressing room, and the spotlight trained on you as you take the center stage.
Yay Padua-Olmedo
#6. It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.
Dwight L. Moody
#7. Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.
Martha Stout
#8. I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.
Jon Beason
#9. One pitch can be the difference between a win and a loss, an error could be the difference.
Lisa Fernandez
#10. Sometimes i's not about the win, it's about the experience.
Junnita Jackson
#11. A lot of teams aren't going to let me beat them. I just try to do something each game to help us win. If you do something like that, whether it's a walk or a hit, your numbers will be there by the end of the year.
Ryan Zimmerman
#13. We will win with character, not with characters.
Bob Weltlich
#14. The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.
Richard M. Nixon
#15. So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.
Al Oerter
#16. It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.
Sophia Loren
#17. Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking.
Sara Sheridan
#18. When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.'
Maria Sharapova
#19. I don't trade for excitement; I trade to win
Larry Hite
#20. When you're a political leader, when you represent the entire state or the entire country, not just Republicans or not just Democrats or not just the poor or not just the rich, you have to really represent everybody. No matter who contributes money, when you win, you represent everyone.
David Shuster
#21. I can win but you cant lose, this makes us all even in our ways.
Suzanne Collins
#23. You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
Robert Harris
#25. Life, especially in relation to other women, would always be a competition, one she would rarely win.
Anthony McCarten
#26. It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.
Stacey Kade
#28. Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
Christiane Amanpour
#29. Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.
Pele
#30. These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.
Gene Wolfe
#31. Don't neglect any tiny opportunity that comes your way. They will lead you to greater opportunities you have been expecting to win.
Israelmore Ayivor
#32. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential ... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
#33. I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.
Muhammad Ali
#34. Who would win in a fight? The past or the future? The past. Every time. It was relentless.
Megan Miranda
#35. No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.
Terry Bradshaw
#36. He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.
Mike Ditka
#37. My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
Tony Blair
#38. When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.
Aaron Zigman
#39. I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role. Every single role is important.
Bill O'Brien
#41. Lovie Smith and I are not only the first two African-Americans but Christian coaches showing that you can win doing it the Lord's way and we're more proud of that.
Tony Dungy
#42. Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.
Noel Tichy
#43. What's one hit when you win the battle?
J.J. McAvoy
#44. I want to win championship. That's the think I enjoy most.
Manu Ginobili
#45. I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.
Andrew Lansley
#46. Karou wasn't a prize to win; that wasn't why he was here. She was a woman and would choose her own life. He was here to do what he could, whatever he could, that she might have a life to choose, one day. Whoever and whatever that included was her own affair.
Laini Taylor
#47. My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness.
Katy Perry
#48. It takes calculation to win a duel against a reptile, and you've always been impatient.
Jim Butcher
#49. If you play it safe, middle of the road with all the right notes, you might win. If you are unique and have too much personality, you might easily score a '0' in competition.
Charlie Albright
#50. There's kind of an unwritten rule, Don't call your captain out at a Ryder Cup, win, loss or draw, you just don't.
Graeme McDowell
#51. If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?
Jed S. Rakoff
#52. The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they'll finish last. You don't win the race by walking around the starting line saying 'I'm not going to win this race'.
Mitch Rowland
#53. I don't think I like you." "A common reaction," he replied. "I'll win you over. Eventually." She
Sarah Dessen
#54. There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.
Bode Miller
#55. No matter how much I respect someone or how much I like someone, it doesn't exceed my will to win.
Daniel Cormier
#56. You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#57. I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
Bo Bennett
#58. We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue
or they win! No, when you become smarter and less gluttonous, you win. We all win!
Bill Maher
#59. If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
Fernando Alonso
#60. In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.
Gichin Funakoshi
#61. Your path isn't an easy one, sweetheart. But it might just end up being spectacular." She turned brilliant blue eyes on her daughter. "You have to fight for what you want, and I know you'll win. Every damn time.
Rebecca Zanetti
#62. The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.
Steven Pressfield
#64. There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.
Josh Earnest
#65. The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
Joey Adams
#66. No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.
William Howard Taft
#67. The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
Questlove
#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
#70. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.
Paulo Coelho
#71. It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart
Michael Jordan
#73. Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
Walter Kirn
#74. When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever.
Laura Schlessinger
#75. I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#76. If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.
Myles Horton
#77. You win a while, and then it's done - Your little winning streak.
Leonard Cohen
#78. The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.
George B. Cortelyou
#80. In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.
Lavinia Milosovici
#82. We love the idea of transformation, so we can make ourselves something more than just ordinary. It's why you're doing this, isn't it?" she asked. "You don't want to settle for what you are; you want to be more. You want to win.
Abby McDonald
#83. You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!
Kevin Spacey
#84. We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.
Bob Bourne
#85. If you want to win, drop the past trends. Genius creates new trends and the crowd follows the past.
Amit Ray
#86. Too many church leaders have bought into the myth that to clarify the win means establishing attendance goals and raising a lot of money.
Andy Stanley
#87. I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.
Robert McNamara
#88. I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.
Jackie Mason
#89. I allow her to pull away. "You gave them an entire continent."
"I did."
"You're going to lose the respect of your people." I capture her hand.
Still alive. It's going to take several minutes to believe it.
"And you'll win it back for me.
Laura Thalassa
#90. Only the completely enlightened are beyond winning and losing. Yet, strangely enough, they had to win to get to the point of being beyond winning and losing.
Frederick Lenz
#91. When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.
Oscar Wilde
#92. Both teams want to win and they want to do everything possible. You don't think about the fatigue factor. You're just trying to grind it out to get the win.
Paul Pierce
#93. The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy.
David Gill
#94. Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.
Drew Bledsoe
#95. Alice? You didn't get this far without realizing that you don't have to cheat to win. You just have to accept that people are easily manipulated.
Elle Lothlorien
#96. Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.
Nicholas Sparks
#97. There is that in the Notre Dame fan which makes him intolerable to others, namely, his unassailable confidence that in a well-ordered universe Notre Dame is meant to win all of its games.
Ralph McInerny
#98. As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!
Richard Rohr
#99. Our only concern should be to keep the fight [for souls] aggressive and to win victory regardless of cost or sacrifice.
Samuel Marinus Zwemer
#100. It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.
Blaine Nye