Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Howard

I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.

Ralph Nader

The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.

Winners win not because they're allowed to, but because they decide to.

Those who win big do it by creating other winners.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the reward represents.

Rajon Rondo

I always get up for every game, but this game is especially big. It's a do-or-die thing. This could be (decide) whoever wins the regular-season championship.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.

Rafael Benitez

If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.

Rafael Benitez

Winning trophies has made me put on weight

Rafael Benitez

When I was at Valencia my wife said that we would win the league. She was right and to mark the occasion she asked me for a new watch. I bought her the watch, but then she said that we would win the UEFA Cup and that when we did she wanted another watch. Now she says that we will win the Champions League and that she will want an even more expensive watch. My wife has a lot of confidence and a lot of watches.

Rafael Nadal

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

Rafael Nadal

In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

Rafael Nadal

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

Sharon Shinn

It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.

Shane Claiborne

Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world. People are not crucified for helping poor people. People are crucified for joining them.

Sepp Blatter

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

Serena Williams

I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker.

Serena Williams

For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.

Serena Williams

People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you're a robot, and I'm not.

Serena Williams

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Serena Williams

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Sean Covey

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

Schuyler Fisk

I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.

Schoolboy Q

People saying that you been robbed is almost better than winning a Grammy.

Michelle Kwan

It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible.

Michael Weston

To win a negotiation you have to show you're willing to walk away. And the best way to show you're willing to walk away is to walk away.

Sigmar Gabriel

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say with utmost sincerity that it mattered more to me that we got noticed than whether or not we win.

John Waters

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

John Thorn

Life is more about losing than winning.

John Perry Barlow

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

John Pilger

I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.