Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cliff Floyd

Honestly, .500 would be great. Just winning would be great. Just to get something positive, that's enough.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

Gena Showalter

Any tips for winning?” she’d asked. “Yeah. Do what you gotta do to survive.” “That’s it? Wow. You suck at pep talks.

Gary Lineker

When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

Imran Khan

Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

Jack Campbell

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

Jack Charlton

If in winning we only draw we would be fine.

Jack Canfield

The best way to establish rapport with people and to win them over to your side is to be truly interested in them, to listen with the intention of really learning about them. When the person feels that you are really interested in getting to know them and their feelings, they will open up to you and share their true feelings with you much more quickly.

Jack Canfield

When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them.

Imelda Marcos

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

Jack McDevitt

Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

Jack Ma

Global vision, local win.

Jack Nicklaus

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

Jack Nicklaus

1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.

Jack Nicklaus

Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.

Jack Nicklaus

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

Jack Nicklaus

Tom Watson, Tom Watson blew, what, two PGA Championships and a U.S. Open. Did it destroy his life? No, it didn't destroy his life. He learned from it. He went on to win a lot of major championships and obviously became one of the world's great players.

Jack Nicklaus

As long as I'm prepared, I always expect to win.

Jack Nicklaus

I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.

Jack Kent Cooke

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

Jack Kemp

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

Jack Kerouac

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

Ginger McCain

If Carrie Ford wins the National I'll bare my backside to the wind, and let everyone kick it.

Gerry Spence

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

Gwen Ifill

The latest national polls show a tightening in the race to the White House, especially in key states like Ohio and Florida. But when it comes down to it, winning in November [2016] will depend on which candidate has a viable path to 270 electoral votes.

Gregory Bateson

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

Gram Parsons

The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.

It's all about winning right now. It's not about what Keenan does; it's about what the Chargers do.

Caron Butler

Right now we're winning games. That's all that matters.

That's important. We want to be a winning franchise, and to do that, first you've got to have a winning season.

That's more what we should be about than winning or losing.

You're one of us. We're part of winning here.

Barry Bonds

They're winning their division, ... There's no need ... there's really no need.