If you think back to the days of Phil Anderson, when there were very few Australians to now when you have a Tour de France winner in Cadel Evans, a professional team in GreenEDGE, and classics winners in Stuart O’Grady and Matt Goss – the sport is bigger and bigger in Australia.
When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it’s picking the winners in the competition.
Everyone loves a winner. That’s just how the world is. And Ayrton Senna was one of the greatest winners this sport has ever had.
‘Champagne’ and ‘breathmint’ are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.
Before I even agreed to work with Hennessy and the Privilege Awards, I wanted to do some research on it, look up past winners, and find out more about it.
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
People understand that any major reform to pensions is likely to create losers as well as winners.
One thing I want to do is get Silicon Valley to think harder about those who have been left behind by the technology revolution. It has created huge winners for those who are able to understand it and are adept at it. But it has also displaced a tremendous number of jobs.
I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.
I won some winners’ medals with Lancashire – a NatWest trophy and a couple of Sunday Leagues.
Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
The winners shouldn’t necessarily win, and the losers shouldn’t necessarily lose.
Having watched ‘X Factor’ over the years, they just haven’t got it right. The male winners haven’t been believable. They look like puppets; they sound like puppets.
Against Novak and Rafa, you have balls to hit, but they are so physically really tough. And Roger, he just takes position in the court. He tries to go forward all the time, go for the winners. Then you just don’t play tennis against him.
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.
Plenty of other franchises have reinvented themselves into winners after hitting rock bottom. The 1976 Tampa Bay team that went 0-14 arguably was worse than the 2008 Lions, but the Bucs reached the NFC Championship Game in 1979 and ultimately won the Super Bowl after the 2002 season.
I think if you can find competitive people, they’ll make any environment that they go to winners.
Our style of play is non-negotiable, but we also have to become ruthless serial winners.
Whenever we’re on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It’s a joke.
Winners do what losers don’t want to do.
No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can ride.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
It feels awesome to be back in the winners’ circle.
We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.
Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to ‘pick winners and losers.’ They say we should run government ‘like a business’ and let ‘the market’ decide important matters. When it comes to the declining fortunes of dirty fuels like coal, however, they quickly they abandon these principles.
The people stand up from the chairs when I hit good winners. I like to do that.
My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn’t setting the terms of the competition.
I’ve done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
The Hunger Games’ is for eighth-grade girls! Winners read ‘The Art of War!’
Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they’re famous for.
During my first summer in college, I travelled to California for the first time for a beauty pageant. It was solely for monetary reasons because winners were to get scholarships.
A rule of thumb is that the best investors focus on losers, and the winners take care of themselves.
They have different styles. Scolari is used to coaching national teams and Mourinho clubs. Both are very successful. They are professionals as well as winners.
The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.
If summer racing didn’t exist, I could go on holiday, yes, because nobody else would then be riding winners; but as long it goes ahead, I’ll do it for the reason that I want to ride more winners than anyone else.
Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it’s pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.
Wars are expensive and dangerous. They’re not political winners.
I couldn’t have children, so that’s the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it’s not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
When we were at Stoke and we first got in to the Premier League we had been second in the Championship and were regular winners in that division. The following year we weren’t regular winners, so you have to manage yourself and you have to be positive yourself you have to lift the players.
The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.
I kept these games pretty intimate. You know, with this much money on the table, with this much risk, you wanted to make people feel safe. They don’t want to feel like they’re part of a spectator’s sport – well, the winners do, but the losers do not.
Northwestern’s alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that’s just me!
If you’ve got a regular feed of winners, you control your mind to do it. It becomes a must. If you didn’t have that regular flow of winning, whether you could get yourself to do that, I don’t know. It’s a lot easier when you know the next day you can win and you can win and win, it’s worth doing it.
The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.
You’ve got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it’s antithetical to the American experience.
