Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

Theodore J. Forstmann

Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.

Thelma Drake

There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.

Terry Pratchett

The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.

Margaret Mead

The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.

Kimi Raikkonen

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

Kimora Lee Simmons

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

Michael Lewis

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

Michael Lewis

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

Michael Bloomberg

You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.

Melky Cabrera

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted,

Michael Strahan

I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.

Michael Strahan

You want to win and you want the [NFL] ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.

Michael Owen

You need people who score goals. That's how you win games

Neale Donald Walsch

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.

Neale Donald Walsch

Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

Neale Donald Walsch

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. You won't find glory at the center of safety, but at its edge. You won't find love at a place where you are covered, but in the space where you are exposed. You gotta take some risks. You have to not only pick up the dice, but roll'em. So go ahead, take the gamble. You have nothing to lose except the chance to win. Life is not long enough to spend it on the sidelines.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life is not about win-and-lose. Life is about being or not being, expressing or not expressing, who you are.

Nancy Pelosi

Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, the Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.

Nancy Pelosi

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

Morgan Wootten

The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.

Morgan Wootten

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

Morgan Ensberg

The College World Series, that's the end-all deal as a college player. To get a chance to play in the World Series and win it, that was surreal.

Miguel Indurain

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

Marat Safin

You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.

Marat Safin

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

Marat Safin

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

Marat Safin

Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.

Marat Safin

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

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.