Quotes on Winning

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

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.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Systems don't win, players do.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.

It's very hard to win without any problems. To win, you have to fight. And many times, this fight means to indispose in certain ways with some people, to prevail your beliefs. Your point of view, your ideas and your personality above everything. If you don`t fight hard, you lose your own way. And if you lose your own way, you`re nobody. So, to achieve this line of conduct, you have to fight very hard. And in many times, you really have to fight.

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.