Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Gorman

Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.

Mark Hamill

I always think a day when you never get out of your pajamas is a win.

Oswald Chambers

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

Paul Scholes

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

Paul Ryan

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.

Paul Ryan

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

Paul Ryan

A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.

Pau Gasol

I know that if I perform at a really high level, we're going to have a better chance to win.

Pau Gasol

I'm not the number-one guy here ... if it translates to winning, I don't mind taking a step back as far as roles.

Pau Gasol

It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win.

Paul Arden

Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far as the young one. He chips and putts equally well. And will probably have a better knowledge of the course. So why does he take the extra stroke that denies him victory? Experience. He knows the downside, what happens if it goes wrong, which makes him more cautious. The young player is either ignorant or reckless to caution. That is his edge. It is the same with all of us. Knowledge makes us play safe. The secret is to stay childish.

Paul Azinger

The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.

Pat Cooper

I knew I loved it because I could take the failures. I was like a professional fighter - they're beat 20 times in a row and they just want that one win.

Pat Cash

I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!

Pat Conroy

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

Pat Conroy

Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

Jurgen Klinsmann

We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.

Jurgen Klinsmann

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

Knute Rockne

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

Murray Walker

Andrea De Cesaris, the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.

Murray Walker

This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before

Murray Rothbard

Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism.

Mohsin Hamid

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

Molly Ivins

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

Milo Hamilton

I got what I wanted. I wanted a win.

Milton Friedman

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

Mike Tice

I've always learned when you win a game, no matter what the stats look like, you have to enjoy the victories because they are hard to come by.

Mike Singletary

I want winners. I want people that want to win.

Mike Ditka

I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.

Nate Silver

If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

Nancy Kerrigan

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

Nancy Kerrigan

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

Murray Kempton

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.