Winning Quotes

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

Problem, Race, Rat

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
Max Planck

Important, Happen, Die

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Al McGuire

Time, War, Important

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
Carl Lewis

Life, Best, Sports

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King

Else, Afraid, Everyone

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

War, Against, Iraq

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'
Tiger Woods

Life, Feeling, Saying

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Pierre de Coubertin

Life, Important, Fighting

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.
Ayrton Senna

Important, Everything

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley

Attitude, Win, Champion

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
William Shatner

Hurt, Writing, Acceptance

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
George Steinbrenner

Life, Important, After

On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.
Tim Tebow

God, Everything, Win

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer

Small, Honor, Gain

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
Tom Wilson

Time, Fun, Fighting

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

Mind, Blessed, Nothing

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe

Life, Important, Losing

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.
Hugh Jackman

Work, Respect, May

And winning is a huge thing for me.
LeBron James

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
Bobby Knight

Career, Times, Point

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
Marco Rubio

Government, Same, Problem

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
Eliot Spitzer

Best, Death, End

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

Victory, Getting, Perform

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
Leo Durocher

Nice, Mother, Win

To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
Dale Earnhardt

Win, Happen, Pretty

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.
Tiger Woods

Getting, Barometer

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
Larry Dixon

Goal, Working, Same

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Arsene Wenger

Age, Good, Important

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
Bobby Knight

Team, Games, Coach

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.
Summer Altice

Friends, Losing, Along

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