Top 100 Winning Games Quotes
#1. When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
Gary Lineker
#2. As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
Bobby Knight
#3. Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.
Dean Windass
#4. So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games
Geno Auriemma
#5. 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
#6. People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.
Steve Coppell
#7. I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.
Mike Trout
#8. I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.
Chauncey Billups
#9. Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.
Jason Kidd
#10. My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.
Virat Kohli
#12. You want to be the guy who makes an impact in every game. In this sport it's all about results-winning games and making the playoffs.
Martin St. Louis
#13. I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.
Tony Dungy
#14. During the season ... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.
Clay Matthews III
#15. Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.
John Wooden
#16. I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.
Virat Kohli
#17. I never cheat. I practice Gamesmanship - the art of winning games without actually cheating.
L.J.Smith
#18. I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.
Jonah Lomu
#19. It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
Antonio Davis
#20. Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.
Mario Lemieux
#21. I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.
Eli Manning
#22. We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.
Kenny Dalglish
#23. In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.
Willie McCovey
#25. 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
#27. You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.
Cam Newton
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. I'm very honest and I know where I am. If you look at the table and the games we have got left to win, we need a miracle.
Gus Poyet
#33. 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
#34. Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.
George Brett
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I don't think it's going to work out. Winning ... won't help in any case. Because ... she came here with me. - Peeta Mellark
Suzanne Collins
#38. 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
#39. I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.
Alex Rodriguez
#40. Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
Arthur Ashe
#41. In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.
Lev Polugaevsky
#42. 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
#43. Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.
Nick Saban
#44. If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.
Mariano Rivera
#45. 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
#46. No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability
did he win?
Charles Lever
#47. I play every game to win, it is not in my nature to throw a game.
Heyneke Meyer
#49. Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
Pat Summitt
#50. Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.
Emile Francis
#51. 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
#52. Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.
J. Paul Getty
#53. News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.
John Oliver
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
#57. 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
#58. The goal every year is to win the Super Bowl, not just to get to the playoffs, not just to win a few games.
Calvin Johnson
#59. 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
#62. Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.
Bill Parcells
#63. Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
Randy West
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.
Chuck Noll
#68. 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
#69. I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. Seuss
#70. Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.
Arsene Wenger
#71. To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#72. One game can make a season, especially when you have just four wins going into the game.
Bob Dwyer
#73. Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.
Noel Whittaker
#74. You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness
Brad Stevens
#75. My job as a leader is not to say, 'Hey, look at me. I'm a leader.' It's to lead. I mean, I've got to go out and find ways to win these games.
Josh Freeman
#76. We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.
Mia Hamm
#77. The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver
#78. You play to win the game ... Hello. You play to win the game.
Herman Edwards
#79. 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
#80. Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.
Jerry Tarkanian
#81. Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game
Nick Saban
#82. 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
#83. All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
Gagan Narang
#85. I'm with Houston now. I just have to come in here and play hard and win games.
James Harden
#86. Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.
David Schmidtz
#87. My will to live completely overcame my desire to win
Alfred Hajos
#88. 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
#89. Games can sometimes be fun."
He smiled and lifted his wineglass. "A toast."
She lifted hers. "To dangerous games." He smiled.
"To winning." She clinked her glass against his.
Zoe Forward
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Do we fight? If we do, then know that in battle there is only winning and losing. Rules against hurting are for games.
Robert Jordan
#93. As long as we win games and I harass the quarterback, however I do it, we're good.
Dwight Freeney
#94. In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning ... In life the loser's score is always zero.
W. H. Auden
#95. You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.
Sparky Anderson
#96. That is the way this game is
you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.
Vin Scully
#97. It just a fun game, until someone starts to win and then everyone else begins to cheat!
Andrew James Pritchard
#98. No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.
Bill Parcells
#99. 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
#100. That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.
Don Yaeger
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