Winning Quotes - Page 6

• Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

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• My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

  Bjorn Borg

  Sports, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

  Maya Angelou

  Disappointment, Order, Discipline

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.34, Bantam

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• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Inspiring, Failure

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage

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• If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

  John Dryden

  Thinking, Lovely, World

  John Dryden (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...”, p.219

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• The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Player, Chance

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• Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

  Robert G. Allen

  Fighting, Victory, Slides

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second. Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It's that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Determination, Frustration, Fake

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• Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

  Adyashanti

  Eye, Velvet, Looks

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• If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

  Robert Bateman

  Art, Conflict, Ifs

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• Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

  Liza Mundy

  Asking, Privilege

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• No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

  Daniel Levitin

  Past, Champion, Alive

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• If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it's blowin' and snowin' as well as when it's sunny and smooth.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Challenges, World, Bunnies

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• I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid contest. But if it is, I feel like the winner that came in last.

  Jim Rowe

  Stupid, Lasts, Winner

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• And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Team, Years

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• I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.

  Rick Pitino

  Sports, Fun, Player

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• Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.38, Pelican Publishing

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Training, Desire, Matter

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fate, Long

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• Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Past, People

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• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace

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

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• A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Distance, People, Soul

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 04, 2013

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• I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

  Michelle Kwan

  Positive, Sports, Gold

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• We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

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