Winning famous quotes
07-19-2025
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy
-- A. Philip Randolph -
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
-- Aaron Levie -
The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
-- Aaron Levie -
If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
-- Aaron Rodgers -
You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
-- Aaron Staton -
Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.
-- Aaron Staton -
Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.
-- Abbi Glines -
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
-- Abbie Hoffman -
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
-- Abdallah II -
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
-- Abdoulaye Wade -
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone
-- Abdul Kalam -
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
-- Abdul Kalam -
A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.
-- Abel Stevens -
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...
-- Abraham Verghese -
It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.
-- Adam Gilchrist -
Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
-- Adam Gopnik -
A lot of times people will think, "I'm strong, I'm in shape; why can't I do this pose?" But that's not the point. There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.
-- Adam Levine -
There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.
-- Adam Levine -
Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.
-- Adam Schiff -
Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.
-- Adam Schiff -
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.
-- Adam Young -
Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.
-- Adi Shamir -
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.
-- Adnan -
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
-- Adolf Hitler -
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very modest success compared to the advance of the Mohammedan faith in particular- right here in Europe they lose millions and millions of inward adherents who either are alien to all religious life or simply go their own ways. The consequences, particularly from a moral point of view, are not favorable.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.
-- Adolph Rupp -
It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.
-- Adolphus Busch -
I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.
-- Adrian Peterson -
I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.
-- Adrian Peterson -
It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.
-- Adrien Brody -
To become a token woman--whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters--is to become something less than a mansince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
-- Aesop -
In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character, the further development (or in-dept analysis, "appronfondissement", Fr.) of the faculties of the intelligence ("les facultés de l'intelligence", Fr.), the refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental (or subordinate) things.
-- African Spir -
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
-- Agatha Christie -
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
-- Agatha Christie -
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
-- Agnes de Mille -
And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.
-- Agnieszka Radwanska -
Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.
-- Ahmed Deedat -
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
-- Ai Weiwei -
Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.
-- Ai Yazawa -
In this world, not everything will be won by justice. If you want to win, you have to learn how to cheat. (Nana)
-- Ai Yazawa -
You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
-- Aisha Tyler -
I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
-- Aisha Tyler -
The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
-- Ajay Devgan -
We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here.
-- Al Davis -
The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win.
-- Al Davis -
Look, I don't want to win in the press. I want to win on the field.
-- Al Davis -
I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.
-- Al Davis -
I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.
-- Al Davis -
I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.
-- Al Davis -
Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996. ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side.
-- Al Gore -
American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.
-- Al Gore -
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
-- Al McGuire -
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
-- Al McGuire -
When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
-- Al McGuire -
So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.
-- Al Oerter -
On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?
-- Al Pacino -
It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
-- Al Pacino -
Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
-- Alain Prost -
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
-- Alain Prost -
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
-- Alain Prost -
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
-- Alain Prost -
After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I'm one of the top Canadian ladies. Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program.
-- Alaine Chartrand -
I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
-- Alan Alda -
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
-- Alan Armstrong -
The boys feet have been up in the clouds since the win
-- Alan Buckley -
This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
-- Alan Green -
The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!
-- Alan Hansen -
In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
-- Alan Hansen -
Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?
-- Alan Jay Lerner -
A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve
-- Alan Parry -
Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!
-- Alan Rufus -
Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.
-- Alan Shearer -
Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.
-- Alan Shearer -
I want to be around when Newcastle win a trophy because I want to see this place lift off. It will be one hell of a party for a long time.
-- Alan Shearer -
Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.
-- Alanis Morissette
