I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
~By Barbara Bush ~
The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
~By Dick Ebersol ~
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
~By Patrick McHenry ~
My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.
~By Kelly Clarkson ~
It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
~By James MacArthur ~
It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
~By Dan Marino ~
You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
~By Haile Gebrselassie ~
Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
~By Bum Phillips ~
It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
~By Robin Morgan ~
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.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
~By Joan Severance ~
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.
~By Kobe Bryant ~
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
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.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
Winning tastes good.
~By Jean-Claude Killy ~
It was never about winning medals or being famous.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
You can't go on winning all the time.
~By Jahangir Khan ~
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
~By Cotton Fitzsimmons ~
I'm sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you're losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge.
~By Graham Roberts ~
Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.
~By Jordan Knight ~
We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.
~By Shirley Williams ~
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
~By Bill Watterson ~
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.
~By Sue Wicks ~
These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.
~By Payne Stewart ~
It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
~By Antonio Davis ~
Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.
~By Pee Wee Reese ~
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
~By Paul Begala ~
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
~By Norman Mailer ~
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
~By Eddie Murray ~
I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.
~By Kurt Russell ~
Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.
~By Gerry Cooney ~
Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
I'm bi-winning. I win here, I win there.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
~By Jack Nicklaus ~
There is winning and there is misery.
~By Bill Parcells ~
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
~By Tom Landry ~
This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.
~By Jeffrey Tambor ~
I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.
~By Christine Lahti ~
Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
~By Richard Harris ~
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
~By Richard Petty ~
It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.
~By Judy Holliday ~
Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.
~By Roger Staubach ~
Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.
~By Dennis Franz ~
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
~By Marcel Dionne ~
There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.
~By Steven Gerrard ~
I just want to go out there and do what I can do, contribute in the ways that I can. Whether I get exposure or not, it's about winning.
~By Steven Hill ~
I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls.
~By John Elway ~
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
~By Bill Tilden ~
I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.
~By Stuart Appleby ~
The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.
~By Roy Wilkins ~
When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!
~By Bob Mould ~
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
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.
~By John McEnroe ~
Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
~By Emmitt Smith ~
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
~By Daniel Libeskind ~
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
~By Tom Wilson ~
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
~By Max Planck ~
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
~By Frank Shorter ~
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
~By Bill Veeck ~
As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
~By Catfish Hunter ~
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
~By Paul Bryant ~
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
~By Allan Sherman ~
For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
~By Mac Thornberry ~
Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
In those days reputation was a big thing. If you could win a game before you went out, win it. That could mean winning it in the papers by saying certain things or by not saying certain things. You got very crafty at the game.
~By Tommy Smith ~
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
~By George W. Bush ~
They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.
~By Jeremy London ~
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.
~By Jennifer Capriati ~
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
~By Ahmed Ben Bella ~
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
~By Michael Medved ~
I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.
~By Lucas Grabeel ~
The determination to win is the better part of winning.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
~By Vin Scully ~
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.
~By Richard Marx ~
But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here.
~By Trish Stratus ~
I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
~By Tom Cruise ~
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.
~By Tracy Austin ~
But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.
~By David Axelrod ~
I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.
~By Retief Goosen ~
Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
~By Alan Shearer ~
In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.
~By John McGraw ~
Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
~By Don Shula ~
If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.
~By Dwight Gooden ~
I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.
~By Michelle Kwan ~
And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
~By Hamilton Jordan ~
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