Winner Quotes

• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Past, Insightful

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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Positivity, Winning

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 08, 2014

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• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

  Arthur Ashe

  Softball, Confidence, Winning

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• A winner makes mistakes. A loser blames others for them.

  Josh Linkner

  Mistake, Blame, Loser

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2011

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• Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Esquire, Nov. 1962

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• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

  Diane Arbus

  Life, Motivational, Softball

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• Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

  Venus Williams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Nov 21, 2016

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all 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. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

  Napoleon Hill

  Change, Happiness, Inspiring

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Successful, Aptitude

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• The cheerful loser is the winner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Loss, Cheerful, Losing

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• Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

  Denis Waitley

  People, Purpose, Definite

  Denis Waitley (1996). “Psychology of Success: Developing Your Self-esteem”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

  Eric Berne

  Inspirational, Failure, Winning

  Eric Berne (2010). “What Do You Say After You Say Hello”, p.235, Random House

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• The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

  Simon Cowell

  Mean, Competition, Frustrated

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• There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Blessed, Eye, Winning

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• It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

  Richard M. Nixon

  History, Beats

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• One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Winning, Looks

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• When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

  Mark Fidrych

  Basketball, Attitude, Loser

  Mark Fidrych, Tom Clark (1977). “No big deal”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Winning, Bed

  Bruce Jenner, Mark Seal (1999). “Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Winning, Expectations

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2015

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