It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Douglas MacArthur

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
Steve Prefontaine

How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?
Steve Prefontaine

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Bobby Knight

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Robert Collier

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
Joey Adams

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw

In order to win, you must expect to win.
Richard Bach

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Richard Bach

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
Woodrow Wilson

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia Woolf

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
Ron Paul

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
Tupac Shakur

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
Mike Tyson

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson