The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
~By Jesse Helms ~
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
~By Elizabeth Blackwell ~
The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
~By Knute Rockne ~
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 ~
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 Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.
~By Goran Ivanisevic ~
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 ~
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
~By Sachin Tendulkar ~
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
~By Steve Yzerman ~
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
~By George Steinbrenner ~
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
~By George Orwell ~
A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
~By William C. Bryant ~
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.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
~By Catfish Hunter ~
The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
~By Gerry Adams ~
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 ~
Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
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 ~
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.
~By Kit Bond ~
You can't go on winning all the time.
~By Jahangir Khan ~
Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.
~By Michael East ~
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
~By Barack Obama ~
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 ~
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
~By Leo Durocher ~
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 ~
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.
~By Randy West ~
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness.
~By Tenley Albright ~
Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
~By Karl Rove ~
Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
~By Bum Phillips ~
My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
~By Conrad Hall ~
Every winning streak will have to end sometime.
~By Jahangir Khan ~
It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.
~By Frank Woolley ~
From one match to the next, I kept on winning.
~By Tracy Austin ~
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
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 ~
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
~By Billy Bob Thornton ~
Swimming isn't everything, winning is.
~By Mark Spitz ~
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
~By Bill Veeck ~
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 ~
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
~By Fred Perry ~
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 ~
In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
The key to winning is poise under stress.
~By Paul Brown ~
Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.
~By Judy Holliday ~
The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.
~By Whitey Herzog ~
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
~By Chuck Noll ~
I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.
~By Mark Messier ~
That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.
~By Marcy Kaptur ~
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
~By Eddie Murray ~
The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.
~By Chuck Noll ~
They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.
~By Jeremy London ~
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
~By Chris Evert ~
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
~By Marie Carmichael Stopes ~
I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.
~By Greg Egan ~
Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.
~By Roger Staubach ~
Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
There is winning and there is misery.
~By Bill Parcells ~
The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.
~By Dick Morris ~
It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
~By Antonio Davis ~
Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.
~By Maurice Greene ~
Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
~By George Allen, Sr. ~
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 ~
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 ~
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
~By Boris Becker ~
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.
~By Richard Reeves ~
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
~By Billie Jean King ~
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
~By Tom Landry ~
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
~By Ben Hogan ~
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 ~
I'm bi-winning. I win here, I win there.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
The determination to win is the better part of winning.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
~By Joe Baca ~
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 ~
What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
~By Dwayne Johnson ~
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 ~
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
~By Jackie Robinson ~
If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
~By Dana Hill ~
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
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 ~
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
~By Lance Armstrong ~
Winning in my business is everything.
~By Al Unser ~
My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
~By Charles Van Doren ~
The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.
~By John Linder ~
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 ~
If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.
~By Tiger Woods ~
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