Quotes About Winning
1. You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.
2. One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
3. Winning isn’t everything–but wanting to win is.
4. We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you can say, We’re remembering. That’s where we’ll win out in the long run. And someday we’ll remember so much that we’ll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.
5. Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven.
6. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
7. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can’t just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don’t, you’re the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.
8. Fame you’ll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don’t because sometimes they won’t..
9. To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.
10. I don’t pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I’ll win.
11. A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.
12. The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. Thats the essence of it.
13. Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
14. This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
15. If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
16. Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
17. Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, “without a vision (dream), a people perish.” You need a dream, if you’re going to succeed in anything you do.
18. Leaders live by choice, not by accident.
19. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
20. If you walked away from a
toxic, negative, abusive,
one-sided, dead-end
low vibrational
relationship or friendship
— you won.
21. If you’re confused about what to do,
it’s a sign that your enemy is winning.
22. Hope?” he says. “There is always hope, John. New developments have yet to present themselves. Not all the information is in. No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
23. Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.
24. Focus on what you are and what you can rather than what others aren’t & can’t. You have to win; they don’t necessarily have to lose for you!
25. No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.
26. I have won.
27. Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner.
28. When you win, you don’t examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you’ve worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn’t particularly define you beyond those characteristics.
Losing on the other hand, really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck?
If you’re willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.
29. You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved.
30. I’ve wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn’t change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing–I’m just more gracious about it. I’m also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.
31. You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
32. You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all – the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.
33. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it…. Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
34. Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don’t have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
35. Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.
36. If you lose your temper, you lose!
37. Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
38. Opportunity doesn’t make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.
39. Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It’s like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: “Slow and steady wins the race.” Just try a little, every day. You’ll see.
40. If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn’t mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they’ve given it their best. That’s a winner.
41. And what exactly do you think this proves?” he spits. “You’ve got power, but you don’t know what to do with it.
42. More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
43. Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!
44. They expected to lose. And therefore, they lost. [..] People who start thinking deep dark thoughts in the middle of a war start expecting to lose.
45. Winning isn’t everything; it’s just the ONLY thing.
46. Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
47. No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
48. Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK ’cause we were busy planning to win.
49. An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.
50. TODD!” I shout again –
And he looks at me –
And I hear my name in his Noise –
And I know it –
I know it in my heart –
Right now –
Todd Hewitt –
There’s nothing we can’t do together –
And we’re gonna win –
51. You don’t win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.
52. I have no sense of humor about losing
53. I like the lady horses best,
how they make it all look easy,
like running 40 miles per hour
is as fun as taking a nap, or grass.
I like their lady horse swagger,
after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!
But mainly, let’s be honest, I like
that they’re ladies. As if this big
dangerous animal is also a part of me,
that somewhere inside the delicate
skin of my body, there pumps
an 8-pound female horse heart,
giant with power, heavy with blood.
Don’t you want to believe it?
Don’t you want to lift my shirt and see
the huge beating genius machine
that thinks, no, it knows,
it’s going to come in first.
54. Associating with winners may not make you a winner, but associating with losers will definitely not make you one.
55. I GOT TIGAR BLOOD
56. #Cats are marvelous creatures – they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way – they win.
57. Life is a game, you can’t afford to lose.
58. Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.
59. Where’s the pleasure in bein’ the winner if the loser ain’t alive to know they’ve lost?
60. Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.