Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Philip Yancey

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

Victor Hugo

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

Richard Bach

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Richard Bach

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

Robert Foster Bennett

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.

Robert Fulghum

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

Rick Mears

You've got to learn a pace that's fast enough to win, but slow enough to finish.

Richard Trumka

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

Richard Marcinko

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

Richard Dreyfuss

Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad

Thucydides

The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

Thomas S. Monson

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

Thomas Sowell

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.