Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Pete Coors

I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it.

Pete du Pont

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

Pete Carroll

I'm talking about: Are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice. Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever.

Pete Carroll

If you want to win forever, you've got to ALWAYS COMPETE.

Pete Carroll

Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.

Paulo Coelho

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

Paulo Coelho

All haters are losers, even when they win.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.

Phil Simms

Playing well and winning the Super Bowl helped my credibility. Otherwise, when Id give an opinion, people would say, What has he done? If I didnt win that Super Bowl, Id probably be coaching somewhere. TV would not be an option for me. So, (winning the Super Bowl) does help.

Phil Mickelson

Its just as disappointing as it was thrilling to win the Masters. To come very close, to play so hard for 72 holes and play better than everybody but one guy is disappointing.

Phil Mickelson

The only way to win tournaments is with the short game. Over half your shots out here are within 30 or 40 yards. Ballstriking is where I'm trying to improve, yes, but more to eliminate big numbers than make birdies.

Phil Mickelson

What I like to do is to try to win as many tournaments and as many majors as I can, and with him [Tiger Woods] in the field, it just gives it more credibility, whatever it is I am able to accomplish.

Phil Mickelson

I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.

Peter Shilton

To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate.

Peter Singer

Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.

Peter Guber

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

Quintilian

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Quentin Tarantino

I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.

Quentin Tarantino

If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.

Plutarch

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

Jim Otto

It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.

Jim Parsons

You can look at the Emmys two ways in you're nominated. It's either win-win or lose-lose. If things go very well and I win, you still have to get up in front of a group of people and risk having God knows what come out of your mouth. If you won't win, you have to breathe deeply and smile and clap with a camera in your face.

Jim Rohn

Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win.

George Matthew Adams

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

Ely Culbertson

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

Jimmy Fallon

Jeb Bush gave a speech yesterday. He had a pretty rough time. He accidentally said that ISIS has 200,000 men instead of 20,000, and then he mispronounced the name of the terrorist group Boko Haram. So if history has taught us anything, Jeb is well on his way to winning the White House.