Winner Quotes - Page 12

• I have never heard a doping offender say he felt good about doing it. Not a single one. Some athletes justify their actions by saying it enabled them to afford a bigger house or a better car. But they are never really happy. They know that they are not real winners.

  Travis Tygart

  Real, Athlete, Car

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.

  Eli Manning

  Satisfaction, Care, Score

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• When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

  Angie Stone

  Winning, Never Quit, Taught

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• I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.

  Carli Lloyd

  Sports, Mean, Games

  Source: www.slate.com

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• If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.

  Lance Armstrong

  Block, War, Two

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Strategy, Proof, Optimal

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.

  Halle Berry

  Lonely, Artist, Night

  "Comic-Con: Halle Berry On Shattering Stereotypes, ‘Extant’ & ‘Storm’ Movie". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 8, 2015.

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• The ability to make a decision is another characteristic of a winner in money matters. I have found over and over again that those who succeed in making large sums of money reach decisions very promptly and change them, if at all, very slowly. I have also found that people who fail to make money reach decisions very slowly, if at all, and change them frequently and quickly.

  Venita VanCaspel

  People, Decision, Matter

  Venita VanCaspel (1988). “Money Dynamics for the 1990s”, Simon & Schuster

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• What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, What Matters, Matter

  "Sepp Blatter: Resignation speech in full". www.cnn.com. June 2, 2015.

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• Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Service Culture, Care, Treats

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• I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.

  Melonie Diaz

  Strong, Bread, Female

  "Melonie Diaz, ‘Fruitvale Station’ Star, On Her Breakout Role & Why She Does Indie Films". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.

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• It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

  Joe Torre

  Nice, Mean, Firsts

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• The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.

  Vicente Fox

  Real, Mexico, Economy

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• I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

  Daley Thompson

  Athlete, Games, Dining

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• Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years...or as long as it takes to win.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Winning, Years, Two

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• If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

  Aubrey de Grey

  People, Looks, Biology

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin Can Help Cure Aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Circles, October Revolution, West

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

  Paul Mooney

  America, Soldier, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

  Eugene Fama

  Zero, Winning, Games

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• I chose Real Madrid instead of Barcelona because I'm a winner, not a loser

  Alfredo Di Stefano

  Real, Barcelona, Madrid

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• The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

  Mike Pompeo

  Government, Energy, Loser

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• It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Lifetime, Bigs

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Oil, Would Be

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Stronger, Groups

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Without winners, there would be no civilization.

  Woody Hayes

  Civilization, Would Be

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