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Sweatpants are my favorite white flag of defeat
Author:
Karl Lagerfeld
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Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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Timing is key to success, persevere through uncertainty and you will emerge victorious
Author:
Jennifer Thompson
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We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.
Author:
Steve Yzerman
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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
Author:
John Wooden
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But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.
Author:
James Wolfensohn
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Author:
Earl Weaver
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
Author:
Bill Veeck
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
Author:
Alex Trebek
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Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.
Author:
Benicio Toro
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The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.
Author:
Lily Tomlin
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The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.
Author:
Peter Thomson
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This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.
Author:
Jeffrey Tambor
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These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
Author:
Hailee Steinfeld
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Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.
Author:
Roger Staubach
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Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.
Author:
Amos Stagg
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Swimming isn't everything, winning is.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.
Author:
Sammy Sosa
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In those days reputation was a big thing. If you could win a game before you went out, win it. That could mean winning it in the papers by saying certain things or by not saying certain things. You got very crafty at the game.
Author:
Tommy Smith
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And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.
Author:
Don Shula
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Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
Author:
Allan Sherman
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Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
Author:
Joan Severance
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Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.
Author:
Ayrton Senna
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
Author:
Vin Scully
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Winning starts with beginning.
Author:
Robert Schuller
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I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.
Author:
Gabriela Sabatini
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The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.
Author:
Greg Rusedski
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The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.
Author:
Art Rooney
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Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Author:
Erwin Rommel
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We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.
Author:
Knute Rockne
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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.
Author:
Jackie Robinson
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After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.
Author:
Chita Rivera
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Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
Author:
Beah Richards
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Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.
Author:
Pee Reese
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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.
Author:
Max Planck
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Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough.
Author:
Mary Pierce
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Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
Author:
Bum Phillips
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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
Author:
Richard Petty
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There is winning and there is misery.
Author:
Bill Parcells
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No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.
Author:
Bill Parcells
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Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.
Author:
Arnold Palmer
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
Author:
George Orwell
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As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
Author:
Dan O'Brien
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Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
Author:
Greg Norman
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The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.
Author:
Chuck Noll
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
Author:
Jack Nicklaus
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
Author:
Eddie Murray
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Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
Author:
Jose Mourinho
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I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning.
Author:
Edwin Moses
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The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.
Author:
Dick Morris
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In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.
Author:
Bode Miller
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I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.
Author:
Mark Messier
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Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
Author:
Ken Mehlman
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Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.
Author:
Michael Medved
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
Author:
Al McGuire
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In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.
Author:
John McGraw
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As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.
Author:
Richard Marx
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
Author:
Dan Marino
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Winning is everything.
Author:
Youlia Maleeva
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
Author:
James MacArthur
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Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.
Author:
Jeremy London
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Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.
Author:
Christine Lahti
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Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.
Author:
Jhumpa Lahiri
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I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.
Author:
Michelle Kwan
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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.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
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Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995.
Author:
Richard Krajicek
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Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
Author:
Rem Koolhaas
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Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.
Author:
Jordan Knight
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
Author:
Lane Kirkland
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Author:
Billie King
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Winning tastes good.
Author:
Jean-Claude Killy
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Every winning streak will have to end sometime.
Author:
Jahangir Khan
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
Author:
Nancy Kerrigan
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
Author:
Jack Kemp
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
Author:
Hamilton Jordan
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Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.
Author:
Goran Ivanisevic
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Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
Author:
Catfish Hunter
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I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.
Author:
Clara Hughes
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It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.
Author:
Judy Holliday
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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
Author:
Ben Hogan
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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.
Author:
Alfred Hitchcock
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I just want to go out there and do what I can do, contribute in the ways that I can. Whether I get exposure or not, it's about winning.
Author:
Steven Hill
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Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.
Author:
Damon Hill
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Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.
Author:
Thomas Higginson
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The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.
Author:
Whitey Herzog
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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
Author:
Richard Harris
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The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
Author:
Mia Hamm
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My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
Author:
Conrad Hall
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Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.
Author:
Maurice Greene
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If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.
Author:
Dwight Gooden
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A winning effort begins with preparation.
Author:
Joe Gibbs
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This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.
Author:
Steven Gerrard
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You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
Author:
Haile Gebrselassie
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Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.
Author:
Dennis Franz
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Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
Author:
Dianne Feinstein
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
Author:
Rahm Emanuel
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I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls.
Author:
John Elway
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As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.
Author:
Stefan Edberg
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If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.
Author:
Stefan Edberg
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But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.
Author:
Dennis Eckersley
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Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.
Author:
Michael East
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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.
Author:
Dale Earnhardt
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
Author:
Olympia Dukakis
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Author:
Richard Dawkins
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It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
Author:
Antonio Davis
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Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
Author:
Bernard Cornwell
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As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
Author:
Billy Corgan
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Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.
Author:
Thomas Church
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
Author:
Pat Cash
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What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.
Author:
Jennifer Capriati
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We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.
Author:
Eric Cantona
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
Author:
Gary Burton
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It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
Author:
Carol Burnett
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Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
Author:
William Bryant
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Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.
Author:
Paul Bryant
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The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
Author:
Bear Bryant
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The key to winning is poise under stress.
Author:
Paul Brown
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Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.
Author:
Dave Bristol
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As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.
Author:
Terry Bradshaw
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I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.
Author:
Brian Boitano
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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
Author:
Bonnie Blair
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It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
Author:
Dennis Bergkamp
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Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
Author:
Elgin Baylor
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Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
Author:
Joseph Barbera
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From one match to the next, I kept on winning.
Author:
Tracy Austin
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I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.
Author:
Alexis Arguello
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Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.
Author:
Alexis Arguello
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Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness.
Author:
Tenley Albright
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
Author:
Floyd Abrams
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Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
Author:
Floyd Abrams
