Winning Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• Fine. You win. I quit. You two deal with this. I’m going home. Packing up all my personal items, and when you, Caleb, end up dead because the coach has your jockstrap or something else I didn’t steal but someone else did, don’t call me. I’m done and I’m going to hide in a bunker until all of this is over with.” – Nick “I hate you, Nick.” – Caleb “Feels mutual, Demon.” – Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Home, Two

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• I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fighting, Night, Giving

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Thirteen: A Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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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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• We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Stay Strong, Icing

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• If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.

  Jay-Z

  Sports, Stupid, Athlete

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• Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?" Win?" Yeah." You okay?" Hello?" Win?" Yeah." What took you so long to answer the phone?" Hello?" Win?" Who is this?" Myron." Myron Bolitar?" How many other Myrons do you know?" Myron Bolitar?" No, Myron Rockefeller." Something's wrong," Win said. What?" Terribly wrong." What are you talking about?" Some asshole is calling me at seven in the morning pretending to be my best friend." Sorry, I forgot the time.

  Harlan Coben

  Morning, Sorry, Phones

  Harlan Coben (2013). “The Myron Bolitar Series 7-Book Bundle: Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear”, p.88, Dell

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• What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sweet, Joy

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

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• You wanna fight?" I asked. He looked up at me and, for just a second, hesitated, then said, "Yeah. I do." "Well, I'll save you the trouble. You win.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fighting, Trouble, Yeah

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• Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Clear, Loses

  "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.

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• When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Joy, Faces, Losing

  Swami Satchidananda (1987). “The Golden Present: Daily Inspirational Readings”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Summer, Stars, Flower

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