Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Weaver

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Edgar Guest

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

Edgar Guest

The things that haven't been done before, Are the tasks worthwhile today; Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way? Are you one of the timid souls that quail At the jeers of a doubting crew, Or dare you, whether you win or fail, Strike out for a goal that's new?

Bobby Heenan

You win some and you lose some. Unless you're Virgil, then you lose them all.

Bobby Jindal

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

Benjamin Franklin

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

Betty Cuthbert

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m

Benny Goodman

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Bob Seger

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

Chelsea Handler

Every time John Travolta assaults a masseur, a scientologist gets their wings.

Charles Koch

When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

Charles Kuralt

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

Ai Weiwei

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

Bobby Bowden

As good as we were, we didn’t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks. I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami. Notre Dame would play them, then drop them. Florida dropped them. Penn State dropped them. We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship. I didn’t want to play them, either, but I had to play them. That’s why I said, When I die, They’ll say, ‘At least he played Miami.

Bobby Bowden

I'm not too proud to change. I like to win too much.

Bob Newhart

You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

We'd like to go down and win one -- or several.

Abbie Hoffman

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

A. E. Housman

June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.

A. A. Milne

One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

Adrian Grenier

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing

Adam Pally

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

Dane Cook

Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show.

Dane Cook

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

Daley Thompson

I am only about winning and getting better.

David Letterman

Are you excited about the recall election? Arnold's campaign has a new slogan: 'Win one for the groper.'

David Benioff

There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

Danger Mouse

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

Danica Patrick

My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.