Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Richelle Mead

I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.

Retief Goosen

Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.

Retief Goosen

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Retief Goosen

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

Ryan Lochte

I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.

Rose Macaulay

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

Ronaldinho

My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win.

Ronda Rousey

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.

Ron Brown

To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games,

Ron Atkinson

I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

Ron Atkinson

Huddersfield will want to win this one.

Roger Martin

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

Umberto Eco

The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

Tyler Cowen

What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small l but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. Thats more or less the empty set.

Troy Glaus

I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.

Rick Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Reid Hoffman

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

Rick Warren

When you win, don't swagger. When you lose, don't sulk.

Paolo Maldini

When I see Messi play, in my opinion, he should win the Ballon d'Or every year. He is an unbelievable player.

Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than the seeking slyly to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want in ourselves.

P. C. Cast

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

Patton Oswalt

A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.

Paul Virilio

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Paul Tsongas

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

Paul Wolfowitz

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

Mel Brooks

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Mary Pierce

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

Martin Compston

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

Pierre de Coubertin

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

Rachael Taylor

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.