It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.
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It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.
I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.
It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.
But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win
I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.
I do not like to write - I like to have written.
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn't move to plead his cause.
To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."
Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.
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