Winning the title is an important detail to the story, but how you get there is much more important.
As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy… there’s something about winning a Super Bowl.
I’m competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don’t really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.
In winning companies, everybody pulls in the same direction.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for ‘I Will Survive.’
Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to be a logical extension of my Uncle Alex, Uncle Zoli, and my father, in that order.
I never did say that you can’t be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up.
When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I’m pretty good at passing.
Over the years, I’ve made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.
If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.
Like many other people, I grew up with so much adversity and negativity, it would have been easy to get overwhelmed and give in. But by turning negatives into positives, losing into a journey to winning, I have been able to overcome the odds that were against me and change them into motivation for my success.
I think I’m happier, not just because of winning Grammys and selling records, but because it’s really fulfilling to have all these things happen with something you love to do.
An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.
I went from not being known anywhere in the world to winning junior Wimbledon and six months later playing the Australian Open. I was a victim of my own success, really.
With his incredible attitude, with his incredible winning mentality, Cristiano Ronaldo is a unique player.
I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I’ve been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn’t win, trust me.
All of world’s eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It’s like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
Of course I love winning things; I can’t tell you how much I enjoy it.
I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure.
There’s good times and bad times. That’s part of the coaching. You live with the ups and downs of it but at the end, it’s about not only winning games, it’s about developing men.
Breaking the world record in ’92 was a very special personal moment, but I’d say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.
Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
To get anything done, Obama has to be seen as having winning economy – which isn’t easy.
Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.
Winning a Nobel Prize isn’t about being clever at all. It’s about making… at least in physiology or medicine, it’s about making discoveries, and you don’t have to be clever to make a discovery, I don’t think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.
Winning is motivation.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
There is no prize in sales for second place. It’s win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for – they fight for – that winning edge.
I don’t see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements – it’s also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You’ve got to win public support.
Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I’ve had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I’ll never forget either feeling.
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.
Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It’s never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.
As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
Winning, you can overlook so many things.
My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we’ll see what kind of time it brings.
I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn’t really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment – trying to be feminists and failing to be.
I’m all about winning.
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.
It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt’s winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.
The GOP can’t even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.
The people that you see winning in life are just knocking on more doors. They’re just sending more messages. They’re just sending more resumes. They’re just calling more people. That is what makes you win.
If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I’d wind up kicking myself.
Obviously I want to be there at the end every time, winning games for the team.
The most important thing is winning, not breaking the world record.
I was a waiter before ‘The Office,’ so to me, this was a winning lottery ticket. Everything about my life has changed.
To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
Perseverance doesn’t always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
I don’t know why, but despite winning how many world championships, how many Tour stages, and being 31 years old, some people still thought I had to prove myself, you know. So I had to do the Track Worlds to try to prove myself.
