Famous Quotes & Sayings

Molly Ivins

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

Milo Hamilton

I got what I wanted. I wanted a win.

Milton Friedman

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

Mike Tice

I've always learned when you win a game, no matter what the stats look like, you have to enjoy the victories because they are hard to come by.

Mike Singletary

The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

Mike Singletary

I want winners. I want people that want to win.

Mike Ditka

I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.

Nate Silver

If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

Nancy Kerrigan

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

Nancy Kerrigan

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

Murray Kempton

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

Kelly Slater

I was stuck for 16 months without a win there, and now I've had five this year. Once you break that barrier for yourself it makes it easier; you're not thinking about it... It opened up the floodgate for me.

Kathy Bates

After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.

Julia Stiles

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Julian Casablancas

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Ken Jennings

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

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.

Ice T

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Ice Cube

A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie.

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.