Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

Lorena Ochoa

I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico.

Lorena Ochoa

I want to win every single tournament because I know I can do it.

Malcolm Forbes

A winner must first know what losing's like.

Magnus Carlsen

I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

Magnus Carlsen

All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.

Magnus Carlsen

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you’re the best and that you’ll win every time.

Mahatma Gandhi

Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

Gene Wolfe

...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

Gabrielle Zevin

Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.

Gabrielle Zevin

Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

Frank Leahy

You've got to be tough to win.

Frank Leahy

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

Frank Lampard

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

Frank Luntz

There are certain aspects, and there are - there are 15 attributes of winners and winning slogans. "Which side are you on" sounds divisive, that you're on one side or the other, at a time when we actually want universality. We want unanimity.

Harlan Coben

"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."

Gustavo Kuerten

Finally my competitive spirit has come alive and I'm winning again.

Grantland Rice

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

John Marston

If you win power, remember why you wanted it.

John McAfee

If you have the winning cards, why cheat?

John Madden

You can't win a game if you don't score any points.

John Lone

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

John Lydon

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

John Leo

If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

John Lennon

We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

John Lee Hancock

Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.

John Lahr

I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.

Jimmy Connors

I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

Jimmy Connors

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

Jimmy Connors

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

Jimmy Carr

Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.

Jim Otto

It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.

Jim Parsons

You can look at the Emmys two ways in you're nominated. It's either win-win or lose-lose. If things go very well and I win, you still have to get up in front of a group of people and risk having God knows what come out of your mouth. If you won't win, you have to breathe deeply and smile and clap with a camera in your face.