Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. Bush

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
William Glasser

The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
Alfred Hitchcock

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
Mia Hamm

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Denis Waitley

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.
Knute Rockne

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
Knute Rockne

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.
Ellen DeGeneres

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Mike Krzyzewski

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
Mike Krzyzewski

Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.
Mike Krzyzewski

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.
Arnold Palmer

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
Rahm Emanuel

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Pythagoras