Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lleyton Hewitt

That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

Liz Phair

That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win

Michael Jordan

I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.

Michael Jordan

Winning isn't always championships.

Mia Hamm

We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.

Michael Schur

There's going to be a lot of people that don't like you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Instead of trying to win them over one by one, you need to do things that are getting huge swaths of votes [in the elections].

Michael Schumacher

If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

Michael Schumacher

You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

Michael Redd

I know the next level for me is to make my teammates better, to win a championship, and to where they have confidence that they can score 20 or 15 points a night and be consistent.

Michael Redd

You are not worried about scoring; you are worried about winning the game.

Markus Zusak

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

Mark Twain

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Mark Webber

Winning in Monaco is always special. That track has always been good to me. I won there in Formula 3000, battled for the victory with Williams in 2006 and now I've won two of the last three grands prix there.

Mark Victor Hansen

If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.

Mark Billingham

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

Nafisa Joseph

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

Nadia Comaneci

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

Naguib Mahfouz

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Miyamoto Musashi

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

Miyamoto Musashi

Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

Mitt Romney

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.

Priyanka Chopra

I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.

Publilius Syrus

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

Prescott Bush

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Everything that happened in '92 was more than I had dreamed of... winning the U.S. title for the first time and then doing so well at the Olympics... It seemed to wrap things up so perfectly. I couldn't help thinking, 'How could I top that?'

Kingsley Amis

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

Oliver Kahn

Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.

Margaret Atwood

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

Marcus Samuelsson

You know that old expression "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game". That line was definitely not coined by a chef. Because for a chef, it's only about whether or not you pull through. If you fail, nobody cares how hard you tried.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

Marcel Hirscher

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.