Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Prefontaine

If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record.

Steve Goodman

If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.

Sterling Marlin

The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.

Sterling Hayden

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

Steve Backley

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

Stephen Covey

I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.

Stephen Covey

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

Stephen Covey

Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Stephen Covey

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Thomas Merton

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

Thomas Merton

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Thomas Carlyle

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

Thomas Carlyle

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Tony Lema

Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending.

Tony La Russa

The best way to win is to play well early or late in the game. The middle part tends to take care of itself.

Tony La Russa

Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.

Tony La Russa

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Tony Hsieh

If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.

Tony Hsieh

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins

Tony Kushner

Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.

Tony DiCicco

If I win, I attract other good players and by doing that I win more games.

Tony Curtis

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

Tony Dungy

You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together

Tony Dungy

I never wanted our players to think the Super Bowl was the ultimate. I always talk about 'Yes, we're going to win, but what are we going to do as we're winning? What are we going to do after we win?' Winning the Super Bowl is not the destination. It's not an end point. It's what you do from here.

Tony Dungy

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

Tommy Lasorda

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

Tommy Lasorda

When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

Tom Watson

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

Tom Waits

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand

Tom Waits

It's hard to win when you always lose.

Tom Seaver

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

Tom Seaver

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

Steven Spielberg

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.