Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Moore

I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

Roger Ebert

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

Rod Serling

I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

Robert Lloyd

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

Roger Goodell

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

Satchel Paige

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

Sania Mirza

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long,

Sandy Lyle

Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!

Sandy Koufax

There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

Sarah Paulson

It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.

Vince Young

I can do whatever it takes to win.

Vincent Kartheiser

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

William Howard Taft

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

Warren Buffett

It’s class warfare; my class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.

Warren Buffett

To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

Vladimir Kramnik

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

Vincent Van Gogh

No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.

Vladimir Lenin

Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.

Will Muschamp

Stats are for losers. I like winning games.

Will Muschamp

It's not about being a head coach, I'd rather be a DC at Auburn and win championships.

Walter Alston

I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

Walter Benjamin

The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

Walter Cronkite

I guess I showed certain signs of being a workaholic in early years; I had a magazine route very early on - I must have been about seven or eight years old or something like that - when I was carrying Liberty magazine, trying to win green and brown coupons; I eventually [won] a pony.

Walter Cronkite

The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

Werner Erhard

Your life and my life have turned out, and once you get that, life goes on from a position of having turned out. That's called playing the game from win

Webb Simpson

It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.

Wayne Rooney

I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.

Samuel L. Jackson

Not everything's made to win an Academy Award.

Salman Khurshid

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

Salman Rushdie

To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?

Ryan Reynolds

Each time I take a role, I'm always nervous about it at the beginning and I'm always afraid what if that, what if this. Every time I take a role and I'm somewhat terrified at the beginning and I get into it and I start working, that's a big win for me. So, really it is stepping forward in the face of whatever fears that I've created for myself and going forward anyway and those are always big moments for me.

Virgil Goode

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.

William Congreve

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.