Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Shields

Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which is it's better to mislead the people and to lose an election than to mislead the people and win an election.

Patricia Hewitt

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

Patricia Ireland

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

Patricia Ireland

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

Pat Paulsen

If elected, I will win.

Pat Riley

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

Plautus

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

Paula Creamer

I put the most pressure on myself. I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

Phil Hellmuth

If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!

Phil Hellmuth

If there weren't luck involved, I would win every time.

Phil Jackson

I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.

Martin Schulz

The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.

Martin Schulz

My worry is that Donald Trump may inspire copycats, also in Europe. That's why I hope Hillary Clinton wins.

Martin Sheen

I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

LeBron James

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

LeBron James

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

LeBron James

We were playing every game to win, we just happened to win 27 in a row. Our motto was to try and go out and win every game, but there's nothing really to talk about.

LeBron James

We lost one, we won two and we lost another one. We'll take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that's just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played in this series.

LeBron James

But put my body through a lot, you know, but it's the price for your body feeling this way for winning. Did I win? I didn't win a championship, but I've done a lot of good things in this first year back, and hopefully I can continue it.

Lauryn Hill

How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again

Lance Armstrong

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

Lance Armstrong

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

Lance Armstrong

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

Lance Armstrong

The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.

Lance Armstrong

When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.

Lance Armstrong

Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

Lisa See

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

Lisa Kleypas

Roy received my comments with a forced smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?" Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.

Lisa Kleypas

She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the only way to begin." -Rohan to Win

John Turturro

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not

John Updike

Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.

John Sununu

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

John Ralston Saul

The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.