Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerry Adams

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

Georges St-Pierre

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

Horace

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Herb Brooks

Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!

Jessica Ennis

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

Jerry Hollendorfer

I thought she was going to win it, she just got out-bobbed at the wire.

Jerry Della Femina

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

James Blunt

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

James Bovard

Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington -- regardless of who wins the Presidency.

Jalen Rose

When you're not winning it's about how you're not getting it done.

Jamais Cascio

Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.

Jairam Ramesh

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Jacques Derrida

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Jacki Weaver

I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

James Frey

A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.

Hugh Laurie

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

Hugh Jackman

I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.

Hugh Jackman

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

Evgeni Plushenko

It doesn't matter what kind of result will be in the end. I already win for myself.

Evan Esar

You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.

Ernest Hemingway

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

Erwin Rommel

I didn't die nor win.

Erykah Badu

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

Flavia Pennetta

Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.

Fidel Castro

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

Jeffrey Tambor

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

Jeff Cunningham

Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.

James Caan

You have to be very careful when you let someone win.

James A. Baldwin

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

Jahangir Khan

You cant go on winning all the time.