Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miles Teller

So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.

Johnny Manziel

The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.

John Woolman

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

John Wooden

My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else.

John Wooden

Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.

John Wooden

Winning breeds winning.

John Wooden

Too many people look on outscoring someone as winning, I never tried to get that across to my players.

John Wooden

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

John Wooden

We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

John Wooden

You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game, and you can win when you're outscored.

John Ruskin

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

Mark Twain

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

Mark Twain

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

Mark Martin

I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

Mario Lemieux

Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.

Mario Lemieux

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

Mario Balotelli

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

Mario Andretti

In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even if you make the best wine in the world, someone isn't going to like it, because it isn't their style. Judging wine is very subjective.

Michael Caine

It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

Mata Hari

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

Mason Cooley

The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.

Mason Cooley

Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.

Mason Cooley

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

Martina Hingis

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.

Martina Hingis

What rivalry? I win all the matches.

Michael Moore

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

Michael Grant

You cant be trapped by other people you can only be trapped by your fear, defy and win!

Michael Franti

Only a rat can win a rat race.

Michael Angarano

I didnt get to go to prom; I was filming a death scene on my prom night. But I got to go to all the homecomings, and even the winter formals I got to go to, but the only thing I missed was the prom, but everything else was great.

Mem Fox

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

Michel Patini

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.

Michel Patini

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

Michael Josephson

When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose.