Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kinky Friedman

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Kevin Millar

Don't let us win tonight. This is a big game. They've got to win because if we win we've got Pedro coming back today and then Schilling will pitch Game 6 and then you can take that fraud stuff and put it to bed. Don't let the Sox win this game.

Kelly Clarkson

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

Kelly Clarkson

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

Margaret Thatcher

You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

Margaret Thatcher

First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

Margaret Thatcher

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

Paul Merson

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

Oscar Wilde

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

Oscar Wilde

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

Madonna Ciccone

This will be a revolution of inquiring further, of not worrying about winning other people's approval, of not wishing you were someone else but perfectly content to be who you are. Someone unique, and rare, and fearless. I want to start a revolution of love.

Mac Thornberry

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Lorrie Fair

It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about.

Lleyton Hewitt

I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.

Lleyton Hewitt

I feel like when I'm match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I can get on some rolls like I did last year. I won San Jose, Indian Wells and made the semifinals in Miami so it can happen for me.

Lleyton Hewitt

Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.

Lleyton Hewitt

I was lucky enough to win the Davis Cup in my first year in 1999. I won my first slam at the U.S. Open in 2001 and became world No. 1 later that year. By the age of 20, I'd done it all.

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.

Mary Burke

I don't think you have to make this choice about being on one side or the other side. My feeling is that when we are committed to growing the economy and making sure that our public employees have a place at the table through collective bargaining, everyone wins.

Marshall Faulk

If Russell Wilson wins this game... He starts to creep into the conversation of how we talk about Tom Brady, how we talk about Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Aaron Rodgers.

Mark Messier

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

Mark Messier

I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.

Mark McKinnon

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

Mark McKinnon

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

Marion Bartoli

I am not blonde, yes. Have I dreamt about having a model contract? No. But have I dreamed about winning Wimbledon? Absolutely.

Nicki Minaj

If I wasn’t winning you wouldn’t care

Nick Saban

Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.

Nick Saban

It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.