Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

Lou Holtz

An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.

Lou Holtz

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.

Lou Holtz

I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.

Lou Holtz

Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome

Lorena Ochoa

I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico.

Lorena Ochoa

I want to win every single tournament because I know I can do it.

Malcolm Forbes

A winner must first know what losing's like.

Magnus Carlsen

I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

Magnus Carlsen

All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.

Magnus Carlsen

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you’re the best and that you’ll win every time.

Mahatma Gandhi

Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong.

Gene Wolfe

...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

Gabrielle Zevin

Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.

Gabrielle Zevin

Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

Frank Leahy

You've got to be tough to win.

Frank Leahy

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

Frank Lampard

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

Frank Luntz

There are certain aspects, and there are - there are 15 attributes of winners and winning slogans. "Which side are you on" sounds divisive, that you're on one side or the other, at a time when we actually want universality. We want unanimity.

Frank Luntz

There are people who will be wanting to apply "Win" to their own, personal life. If you remember only one thing, and I'm going to do it right here, right now because I just happened to come to it, that phrase - if you remember only one thing - there are 125 specific language recommendations in "Win" that can make a difference in your day-to-day lives.

Frank Luntz

There are about 50 or 60 recommendations [in "Win"] for how to communicate, not just the words themselves. All of them had to be tested. And in this short amount of time, it's just very time-consuming and very stressful to ensure that you get it right.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

Og Mandino

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

Oriana Fallaci

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

Olympia Dukakis

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

Novak Djokovic

I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.

Novak Djokovic

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.

Novak Djokovic

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

Ellen Glasgow

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Ellen Glasgow

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

Eric S. Raymond

Free markets select for winning solutions.

Eric Ries

A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.