Winner Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

  Maeve Binchy

  Children, Sides, Loser

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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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• In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

  Bill Vaughan

  Order, Years, Pay

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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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• 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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• There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Winning

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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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• Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Want, Way, Figures

  "Jennifer Lopez talks Shall We Dance?". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. October 13, 2004.

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

  William Westmoreland

  War, Winning, Succeed

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• I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Destiny, Circles

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• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  E. O. Wilson

  Struggle, Religion, Atheism

  "Consilience". Book by Edward Osborne Wilson, 1998.

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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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• Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

  Joanne Harris

  Book, Writing, Leaving

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• The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Memories, Regret, Past

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.94, Knopf Group E-Books

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• He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.

  Richard Yates

  Feels

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.242, Random House

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• I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And thats what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.

  Chris Paul

  Basketball, Winning, Play

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• Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

  Erich Segal

  Victory, Able, Loser

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Hate, Treats, Runners

  "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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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 difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

  Phil McGraw

  Differences, Want, Loser

  Phil McGraw (2013). “Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.

  Kate Morton

  Memories, War, Past

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!

  Libba Bray

  Love You, Wow, You Re Awesome

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• Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles — only the winners are remembered.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Men, Fire

  "The Portable Steinbeck: 2".

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• Shogo looked at Shuya and Noriko. "The winner's forced to transfer to another school where he or she is ordered not to mention the game and is instructed instead to lead a normal life. That's all." Shuya felt his chest well up inside and his face froze. He stared at Shogo and realized that Noriko was holding her breath. Shogo said, "I was a student in Third Year Class C, Second District, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture." He added, "I survived the Program held in Hyogo Prefecture last year.

  Koushun Takami

  School, Class, Years

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