Winning Quotes - Page 34

• A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

  David Mitchell

  Voice, Giving, Car

  "Once upon a life: David Mitchell" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. "I win.

  Ilona Andrews

  Maps, Way, Chairs

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.102, Penguin

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• The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

  Michael Moore

  Numbers, Enemy, Occupation

  "All Hail Moore" by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2004.

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• Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.

  Michael Moore

  Kings, Awards, Games

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• Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

  Alanis Morissette

  School, Way, Partnership

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• I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, Teeth, Useless

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• A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'

  Viggo Mortensen

  Years, Top 10, Watches

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• Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

  Paulo Coelho

  Victory And Defeat, Coward, Form

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• Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  Principles, Dies

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• At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Thinking, Space

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• Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Believe, Play

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• But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Thinking, Europe

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• Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Games, Life Is Like, Sometimes

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• Why do magazines do this to women? It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.

  Candace Bushnell

  Men, Creating, Not Good Enough

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• Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

  Elon Musk

  Years, Car, Trends

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

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• It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

  Benito Mussolini

  Writing, Hands, People

  "Famous Lines : A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations" by Robert Andrews, (p. 330), 1997.

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• Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Country, Emotional, Games

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• I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

  Li Na

  Thinking, Player, People

  "French Open: Li Na stays on the level after life-changing Paris victory". Interview with Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2012.

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• For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

  Rafael Nadal

  Hard Work, Healthy, Important

  "Ask Rafa: send a question to Rafael Nadal". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. January 31, 2012.

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• I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

  Rafael Nadal

  Order, Long, Argument

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• We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

  Rafael Nadal

  Trying, Gears, Speed

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• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Tennis, Victory

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  Rafael Nadal

  Thinking, Tennis, Luck

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

  Rafael Nadal

  Games, Goal, Healthy

  "Ask Rafa: send a question to Rafael Nadal". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. January 31, 2012.

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• Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

  Steve Nash

  Black And White, People, Losing

  "Q&A: Steve Nash on Trying Out for Inter Milan, the Dwight Howard Pitch Meeting, and His Favorite TV Dramas". Interview with Zach Lowe, grantland.com. July 31, 2013.

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