Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Sharapova

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

Maria Sharapova

I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.

Maria Sharapova

Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness...they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.

Maria Sharapova

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

Maria Sharapova

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

Maria Sharapova

When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

Maria Sharapova

People always ask about young people like me being forced into things. I play tennis because I love it. I think Russians might be tougher than other people. When I arrived in America I was young, but I already knew what I wanted. I think that when you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

Maria Sharapova

Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.

Rafael Nadal

If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.

Rafael Nadal

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

Rafael Nadal

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

Rafael Nadal

My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

Sherwood Boehlert

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

Sherwood Anderson

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

Sherwood Anderson

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.

Sherry Argov

That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy. If he isn't trying to make you happy, then send him back from "whence" he came because winning him over will have no benefit. At the end of the day, happines, joy...and yes...your emotional stability...those comprise the only measuring stick you really need to have.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sweetie, in our world, fair’s got nothing to do with anything. He who has the greatest power wins. It’s why we’re all willing to kill each other off without flinching. (Solin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. (Apollymi)

Terry Pratchett

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

Nigella Lawson

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.

Nicolas Chamfort

He who leaves the game wins it.

Nicolas Chamfort

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

Nicolas Cage

How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and they're all playing the same part, and then you rate which one made you feel the most.

Nicki Minaj

I keep 3 hos but don't call me Santa And I'm and I'm flyer than reindeers in winter

Nick Vujicic

Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing…But Is losing failing?

Nora Roberts

Winning can be addictive

Nora Roberts

What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?

Nikos Kazantzakis

Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!

Nicole Kidman

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Nasser Hussain

Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You never win an argument until they attack your person.