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 ~
As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.
~By Stefan Edberg ~
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
~By George Orwell ~
To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
~By Dale Earnhardt ~
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 ~
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
~By Lance Armstrong ~
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 ~
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 ~
Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.
~By Jonah Goldberg ~
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 ~
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 ~
I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.
~By Edwin Moses ~
Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.
~By Mary Pierce ~
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 ~
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 is a habit.
~By Leo Durocher ~
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.
~By Jonah Lomu ~
I'm bi-winning. I win here, I win there.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
You can't go on winning all the time.
~By Jahangir Khan ~
Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
~By Larry Dixon ~
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 ~
Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
~By Karl Rove ~
Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
~By Jack Kemp ~
We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.
~By Knute Rockne ~
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.
~By Ellen DeGeneres ~
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.
~By Clara Hughes ~
The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.
~By Peter Thomson ~
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
~By Tom Wilson ~
The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
Winning tastes good.
~By Jean-Claude Killy ~
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 ~
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 ~
As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
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 ~
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.
~By Lynn Davies ~
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
~By Winston Churchill ~
It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
~By Gary Burton ~
The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.
~By Art Rooney ~
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 ~
Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
~By Allan Sherman ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 starts with beginning.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Winning is everything.
~By Youlia Maleeva ~
But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.
~By James Wolfensohn ~
Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
~By Billy Bob Thornton ~
I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
~By Leo Durocher ~
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.
~By Dave Bristol ~
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 was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.
~By Michelle Kwan ~
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 ~
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.
~By Michael East ~
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
~By Bonnie Blair ~
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
~By Billie Jean King ~
Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
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 ~
I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
~By Joely Fisher ~
The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way.
~By Eliot Engel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
~By Pythagoras ~
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
~By Pat Riley ~
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 ~
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
~By Beah Richards ~
The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.
~By Dick Morris ~
They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.
~By Jeremy London ~
The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.
~By Mike Weir ~
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 ~
My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.
~By Kelly Clarkson ~
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 ~
Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
~By Gary Gygax ~
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 ~
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
~By Ben Hogan ~
Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
~By Paul Bryant ~
It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness.
~By Tenley Albright ~
I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
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 ~
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
~By William Westmoreland ~
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 ~
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