Winning Games Quotes:

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

- Joe Paterno

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Football, Baseball Games

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

- Bum Phillips

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

topic: Motivational Sports, Fun, Winning, Just For Fun, Motivation To Win

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Dream, Cassius, Martial Arts Inspirational

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Loss, Winning, Coaching, Inspirational Football, Sports Football

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Spiritual, Martial Arts Inspirational, Inspirational Athlete

winning is not everything it is the only thing

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.3, McGraw Hill Professional

topic: Football, Winning, Nfl, Inspirational Football, Sports Football

Stats are for losers. I like winning games.

- Will Muschamp

topic: Winning, Games, Loser, Winning Games

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

- Antonio Davis

topic: Winning, Games, Gold, Winning Games

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

- Bill Tilden

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Change, Winning, Games, Winning Games

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Team, Winning, Games, Winning Games

We are not familiar with losing, and that is one thing we stress in this locker room: Dont get familiar with losing, because we never lose games here. I think a lot of guys know that, and they know the tradition behind the Green Bay Packers, so it is time for us to get on this road and start winning games.

- Donald Driver

topic: Stress, Thinking, Winning, Locker Room, Winning Games

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Motivational, Courage, Clever, Innovation And Business, Inspirational Winning

Building discipline, earning respect and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you can be and how you go about being successful in life.

- Walt Frazier

topic: Adversity, Successful, Winning, Winning Games, Game Plan

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

- Jason Kidd

topic: Winning Games

People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.

- Steve Coppell

topic: Winning, Games, People, Winning Games

I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.

- Mike Trout

topic: Thinking, Winning, Numbers, Winning Games

You want to be the guy who makes an impact in every game. In this sport it's all about results-winning games and making the playoffs.

- Martin St. Louis

topic: Sports, Winning, Impact, Winning Games

I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.

- Chauncey Billups

topic: Running, Gun, Winning, Winning Games, Playing Defense

It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

- Mike Singletary

topic: Football, Winning, Thinking, Winning Games

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

- Tony Dungy

topic: School, Winning, Player, Winning Games

I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.

- Eli Manning

topic: Football, Winning, Games, Winning Games, High Level

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

- Mario Lemieux

topic: Sports, Hockey, Thinking, Winning Games, Good Hockey

So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games

- Geno Auriemma

topic: Basketball, Winning, Player, Winning Games, National Championships

Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.

- John Wooden

topic: Basketball, Winning, Journey, Winning Games

Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.

- Dean Windass

topic: Football, Winning, Player, Divine Right, Winning Games

When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

- Gary Lineker

topic: Winning, Player, Thinking, Winning Games, Backfire