It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.
I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.
When I was young, I never dreamed about winning a national championship. I didn’t even play basketball. But I was tall. And long. And had large hands. I was made for the game. It found me later in life, compared to most collegiate athletes.
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn’t from Nashville, they didn’t like her winning our awards. I’ve got no complaints.
You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.
The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning a major championship.
Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.
It’s hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It’s not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you’re good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, ‘Oh, it’s Will Smith. I’ve got to see him, whatever he’s in.’
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation.
Winning isn’t everything. Wanting to win is.
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy – not for the money, but for the glory of winning.
If you’re winning Super Bowls, things like gold jackets can follow.
Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
That’s what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform – is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in ’86.
Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.
What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I’m going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody’s contribution is important.
I feel you can be down and out but if you are determined, nothing can stop you from winning.
I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
Van Gaal has a good vision of football, but it is not mine. He wants to gel winning teams and has a militaristic way of working with his tactics. I want individuals to think for themselves.
Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
The only thing I’m addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both – winning and losing – get easier.
Winning doesn’t mean my book is better than anyone else’s. It means I’m very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.
My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I’ve never lost a match.
The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.
Winning in women’s singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done – the hard work, the tough times – was all worth it.
I’m optimistic because I’m pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
Best memories – obviously, winning a title for the first time. Probably my last fight against Gray Maynard where I was able to finish him for the trilogy. Those were definitely great moments. The worst moments are the losses, for sure.
Regardless of whether it is playing for your school team or playing for Manchester United, winning is great.
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.
It’s about winning the ball, making this step or making the right decision. If you make all of these steps then wins, a final position in the table will come on its own.
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.
The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.
I hate losing more than I love winning.
We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions’ mind-set. And champions’ mind-set isn’t always about winning. It’s about putting everything you have on the field, every ounce of passion and energy you have. And if you get knocked down, overcoming adversity.
Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn’t sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
Darts has changed my life but it won’t change me as a person – if anything, winning has put more hunger in me, I want to win more.
I’m terrified of having to go back to a day job. And that’s why I’m training like a man possessed. Because I want to keep winning.
Winning is the easiest thing that I ever did in the NBA, but being able to come to the realization of what it means to compete in this league no matter what – win, lose or draw – was the most difficult thing.
How you play the game is for college ball. When you’re playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving.
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
I believe that having a family in the dressing room is very important when it comes to winning trophies.
Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It’s spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren’t.
I don’t know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I’ve thought that the end justified the means.
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
I’ve never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It’s always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.
Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.
Life has changed after Rio. Winning a silver medal was a huge moment for me. It has come with a lot of responsibilities.
To win, or to create a great group with winning mentality, you need first stability, but serenity as well. And it is only by creating an internal and mutual trust that you can achieve it.
I was this guy who’d been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn’t even run past a little baby.
Let’s try winning and see what it feels like. If we don’t like it, we can go back to our traditions.
Far from being a mere consequence of winning, strong team spirit is an essential ingredient of sporting success; it comes before, not afterwards.
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
In conclusion, winning represents the culmination of effort, determination, and the belief in our own abilities. As we reflect on these quotes, may we embrace the pursuit of victory in our own lives, finding inspiration, motivation, and valuable lessons along the way. Let us channel the spirit of champions, push past our limitations, and celebrate the power of winning, not only in the outcome but also in the personal growth, resilience, and fulfillment it brings.
