I don’t believe in moral victories. I don’t think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn’t exist.
As an assistant coach, the wins and losses don’t tally up on your record, so you don’t necessarily have that to fall back on, so you have to find smaller games within the bigger picture to play in order to get your victories.
I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it’s true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.
It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, ‘Goodbye,’ but it didn’t work out that way.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
I want 100 victories, not just 100 fights.
My theory on momentum is that the best way to produce it is through small, hard-fought victories that lead to bigger battles and bigger wins. Winning builds momentum.
You learn a lot from defeats. As well, you need to learn from victories.
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing ‘mere’ about symbols.
I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.
President Obama’s astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of American men and women.
Election victories increasingly depend on factors other than who votes, or tries to vote, and for whom. In 2000, the presidency was awarded by the Supreme Court, pre-empting the count of thousands of Florida votes.
As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children’s lifetime or even in their grandchildren’s lifetime. So fatalism isn’t really an option.
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.
Above all, I want to captain England in more Test victories than anybody else.
I don’t really believe in moral victories. You can have them when you’re dealing with public opinion, but in litigation, you want to win the case. I want to win.
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some of the victories throughout this embattled country.
You need to know how to enjoy the victories. In the end, this is a great sport, and it’s to be enjoyed.
There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Even victors are by victories undone.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
After many of my victories, I hear people asking me these questions: ‘What else is there to win?’ And I want to shout, ‘What do you mean, what else? There’s so much else!’
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
My father had an expression, if you want to know the road ahead, ask the person that’s been there. We found that person. Ten Super Bowl appearances, seven victories… Tom Brady.
It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it’s for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.
When I came down south, I went to one of the early Wigan Challenge Cup victories at Wembley, and I was totally hooked from then.
As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.
Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.
It’s amazing, as a player and as a coach, how you always remember the tough losses better than the victories. They’re just way more vivid.
McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.
America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.
Victories are always important.
While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team’s victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent.
The strongest feelings I experienced were in Davis Cup. It was the most powerful thing: the victories and the losses. It hits you in a distinct way. It’s another level of satisfaction – another level of sadness.
I’m just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when the time comes and the vote is cast, hopefully my spot is secured in the Boxing Hall of Fame.
I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
I think the bottom line, even though there are some bumps and bruises here and there, is Kobe will lead you to victories.
I’ve long been offended by not-so-godly pro football players I’ve known who showed up for pregame chapel – Sunday-only Christians rubbing the proverbial rabbit’s foot – then after victories declared it was ‘God’s will’ that their team won.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
The American television industry is a Darwinian environment where success is usually measured in inches, not yards. That is, for most TV media, audiences have gotten so small that one measures ‘victories’ in tenths of a point – as in, a 2.2 percent share is a great leap over a 2.1 percent share.
When you play for a club like Madrid, you always have to stay in the present, because everything is so intense: the sprints, the headers, the tackles, the training sessions, the away trips, the hotels. The victories and the defeats.
Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he’s a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.
Give your employees a shot at showing the company a new way, and provide the room for them to chalk up a few small victories. Once they’ve proved that their idea can work on a limited basis, they can begin to scale it up.
Rather than depriving Trump of political victories, Democrats ought to focus on delivering victories for the American people.
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.
Obama is not Bill Clinton. I don’t think he’s willing to let conservatives have any victories at all.
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
But at the same time you can’t assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
If you don’t lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
Tottenham set a points and victories record in my first season, missed out on the Champions League by one point and had a great run in the Europa League. In the second season, at the time I left we had more points than in the previous campaign.
Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.
The fact is, human rights victories are rarely won by powerful governments or well-armed militaries. More often than not, these battles are led by individuals and small groups of people determined to overcome wrong. Think King, Gandhi, Mandela.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
