Winning Quotes

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.

~ Jose Mourinho

I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.

~ Taron Egerton

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

~ William Westmoreland

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.

~ Richard Reeves

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

~ Xavier Becerra

It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards and countless other awards and honours, he was denied the Nobel.

~ Justin Cartwright

I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.

~ Tony Mccoy

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

~ Mike Krzyzewski

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

~ Sachin Tendulkar

I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool.

~ Shaun Alexander

I think cool moments like winning a Grammy deserve a nice little party where you really soak it in and not have to work and stuff. I do remember throwing a party on that Grammy night, but it was work.

~ Ciara

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

~ Vince Lombardi

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

~ Althea Gibson

One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.

~ John Madden

Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.

~ Helen Fisher

I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.

~ Sam Hunt

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

~ Greg Norman

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

~ Michael Johnson

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

~ Richard Dawkins

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

~ Evan Davis

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.

~ Dennis Bergkamp

I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays.

~ Leigh-Allyn Baker

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

~ Elizabeth Blackwell

There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.

~ Bastian Schweinsteiger

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

~ Nancy Kerrigan

A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel.

~ Stephen Kinzer

To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It's not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It's about really paying your dues. It's people I'm fans of and want to help in the business.

~ Zac Brown

'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.

~ Anton Du Beke

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

~ George Allen

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

~ Lisa Leslie

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

~ Arsene Wenger

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

~ David Sedaris

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

~ Daniel Libeskind

In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

~ Edmund Morgan

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

~ Peter Capaldi

Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't.

~ Dinesh D'souza

Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

~ Vince Lombardi

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

~ Barbara Bush

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

~ Chuck Noll