Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alonzo Mourning

A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.

Allison Janney

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

Anita Brookner

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Clay Aiken

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Clayton Christensen

Quite often startups were first out of the gate with a sustaining technology. But somehow the leaders got the technology and stayed atop their industries. Sometimes they acquired the startup; sometimes they just developed the technology as a follower and used their muscle and mass to win. But they always won.

D. H. Lawrence

Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

Crystal Waters

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

Conrad Burns

In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.

Clint Hurdle

As they say in the rodeo business, he just drew a tough one. There were a lot of positives for Jason to take out of this. He put us in a position to win.

Albert Finney

Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.

Rick Perry

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

Simon Hoggart

British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.

Tony Curtis

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

Tony Dungy

You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together

Tony Dungy

I never wanted our players to think the Super Bowl was the ultimate. I always talk about 'Yes, we're going to win, but what are we going to do as we're winning? What are we going to do after we win?' Winning the Super Bowl is not the destination. It's not an end point. It's what you do from here.

Tony Dungy

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

Tommy Lasorda

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

Tommy Lasorda

When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

Tom Watson

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Tom Waits

It's hard to win when you always lose.

Tom Seaver

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

Tom Seaver

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

Steven Spielberg

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

Steven Gerrard

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

Steven Gerrard

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

Steven Gerrard

If we play in the right way and do what the manager asks us then we will win games,

Steve McNair

I want people to say when No. 9 was out on the field, he did everything humanly possible to win a ballgame.

Steve Martin

Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.

Steve Carell

Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game.

Stephen Keshi

If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.

Stephen Hawking

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

The coach should keep out of the way... He is an important figure, of course, but is more likely to lose a match than win it. Matches are won by players.

Roger Federer

One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.