Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Brett

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

Kurt Vonnegut

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

Andy Pettitte

Whatever I do, I love to win. I don't care if it's tennis or ping pong, I'll kill myself to win it.

Andy Roddick

I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!

Andy Roddick

One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.

Andy Roddick

I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.

Albert Finney

Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.

Albert Camus

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

Amanda Palmer

It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.

Annie Lennox

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

Annabella Sciorra

Sometimes, when you win, you lose.

Clay Aiken

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Clayton Christensen

Quite often startups were first out of the gate with a sustaining technology. But somehow the leaders got the technology and stayed atop their industries. Sometimes they acquired the startup; sometimes they just developed the technology as a follower and used their muscle and mass to win. But they always won.

D. H. Lawrence

Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

Crystal Waters

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.

Abdoulaye Wade

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

A. A. Milne

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

Aeschylus

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

Aeschylus

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

Aeschylus

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

Aeschylus

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Adrienne Rich

To become a token woman--whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters--is to become something less than a mansince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

Agatha Christie

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Adrian Peterson

To be able to have that self-respect for yourself and just that feeling of, OK, I did what I could, just stay true to yourself.If you feel that this is something that's valid and you should go out there and win, then push through it no matter what the outcome is. Just know that nine times out of 10 that no matter whether you were right or you were wrong, the NFL is a business.

Adrian Peterson

At the end of the day, it's hard to win against the NFL. It's a billion-dollar business, it's hard to win against it. They can manipulate a lot of different things. They can pull strings, they know people. At the end of the day, nine times out of 10, they are going to win.

Dan Fouts

I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.

Daniela Hantuchova

It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon

Daniel Libeskind

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

Dan O'Brien

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.

Dan Marino

I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

Dan Marino

I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

Dan Millman

Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.