Winner Quotes - Page 15

• Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.

  Brian Owen

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

  Rudy Tomjanovich

  Basketball, Sports, Motivation

  Rudy Tomjanovich (1997). “A Rocket at Heart: My Life and My Team”

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• Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

  Elgin Baylor

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.

  Roger Staubach

  Success, Sports, Stress

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• The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?

  Woody Hayes

  Thinking, Minutes, Mellow

  "Hayes produced champions, controversy" by Alex Fineman, www.espn.com.

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• Get the winners into the game.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.

  Charles Seife

  Winning, Justice, Luck

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• If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

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• They're happy to be Siamese twins. They feel blessed. But the rest of us have to go through the world alone. And they don't. And because they have this great attitude, they have a lot of friends. They were the kings of the prom. You know, they were in the state championship hockey team. You know, they're the goalie. And it's just they're a couple of winners who happen to be Siamese twins.

  Peter Farrelly

  Kings, Couple, Attitude

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• A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

  Early Wynn

  Baseball, Hate, Pitching

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.

  Marijane Meaker

  Success, Sports, Winning

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• The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life's big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Humility, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Opportunity, Work Out

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• I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.

  Davina McCall

  Addiction, Granny, Knows

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• Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

  Damon Hill

  Athlete, Years, Careers

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• As a competitor, winner or loser, one crosses the line into limbo. The adrenaline is gone, the anticipation is gone. The verdict is either comforting or devestating but it neithers returns the exhilaration of the race nor helps directly to win the next. Maybe all that matters is that there is a next.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Winning, Race, Comforting

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• We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Community, Remember

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• Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Congratulations, Games, Voyages

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• Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Men, Swings

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• If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.

  Joe Inman

  Athlete, Golf, Winning

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• I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win."

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Winning

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• Winners are not born, they are self-made.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Self, Born

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.13, Crown Business

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• To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

  Don Meyer

  Sports, Winning, Fundamentals

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• The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

  Edwin Land

  Inspirational Life, Vision, Important

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