Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Jennings

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

Katie Couric

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Kerri Walsh

I want to win a gold medal in London.

Ken Blanchard

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

Ken Blanchard

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Everything that happened in '92 was more than I had dreamed of... winning the U.S. title for the first time and then doing so well at the Olympics... It seemed to wrap things up so perfectly. I couldn't help thinking, 'How could I top that?'

Jack Osbourne

Just know this, if that day does come where I do win this mirrorball, know that I didn't just win it for me, but I won it for all of us with MS.

Gloria Steinem

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Gloria Steinem

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

Giorgio Napolitano

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Harry S Truman

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

Harry S Truman

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

J. Paul Getty

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

J. K. Rowling

In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.

J. K. Rowling

Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.

Ivan Lendl

Not winning at Wimbledon is not going to bother me forever.

Ivan Lendl

Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

H. L. Mencken

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

Guillermo del Toro

When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing it to be a good boy? At the end, you only win the medal if the film is good, you don't win a medal if the movie is on time.

Greg LeMond

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

Greg LeMond

When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.

Gilbert Parker

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

Marshall Faulk

If Russell Wilson wins this game... He starts to creep into the conversation of how we talk about Tom Brady, how we talk about Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Aaron Rodgers.

Mark Messier

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

Mark Messier

I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.

Mark McKinnon

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

Mark McKinnon

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

Marion Bartoli

I am not blonde, yes. Have I dreamt about having a model contract? No. But have I dreamed about winning Wimbledon? Absolutely.

Nicki Minaj

If I wasn’t winning you wouldn’t care

Nick Saban

Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.

Nick Saban

It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.

Nick Saban

The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.