Quotations and Poems

» “Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.”
– George Ade

»  ”Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.”
– Muhammad Ali

»  ”Every time you win, you’re reborn; when you lose, you die a little.”
– George E. Allen

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

»  ”Ever notice that people never say ”It’s only a game” when they’re winning?”
– Ivern Ball

»  ”Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.”
– D A Benton

»  ”The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.”
– Jacob Bronowski

»  ”I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.”
– Mel Brooks

»  ”There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.”
– Les Brown

»  ”A winner never whines.”
– Paul Brown

»  ”It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.”
– Bear Bryant

»  ”It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.”
– Arthur Calwell

»  ”The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
– Andrew Carnegie

»  ”Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.”
– Larry Csonka

»  ”I can tell you one thing. I’ve done this my way. I don’t have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.”
– John Daly

»  ”Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.”
– Frank Dane

»  ”Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.”
– Fitzhugh Dodson

»  ”If you’re a champion, you have to have it in your heart.”
– Chris Evert

»  ”They always win who side with God.”
– Frederick W. Faber

»  ”When you’re a winner you’re always happy, but if you’re happy as a loser you’ll always be a loser.”
– Mark Fidrych

»  ”I’m a winner each and every time I go into the ring.”
– George Foreman

»  ”We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more. I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak.”
– Sir Eric Geddes

»  ”There are no winners, only survivors.”
– Frank Gifford

»  ”Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don’t like to do.”
– Albert Gray

»  ”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

»  ”If you’re going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?”
– Bruce Jenner

»  ”Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident.”
– Nancy Kerrigan

»  ”Winning tastes good.”
– Jean Claude Killy

»  ”The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.”
– Alymer Letterman

»  ”Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
– Vince Lombardi

»  ”Winning is not a sometime thing; It’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.”
– Vince Lombardi

»  ”There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.”
– Vince Lombardi

»  ”Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
– Vince Lombardi

»  ”If you can accept losing you can’t win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.”
– Vince Lombardi

»  ”All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means… you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.”
– Vince Lombardi

»  ”If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.”
– Shelley Long

»  ”The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.”
– John Madden

»  ”Another club can be beating you for six innings but for some reason the good ball clubs get tough and win them in the last three.”
– Billy Martin

»  ”If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.”
– Jan Mckeithen

»  ”To finish first, you must first finish.”
– Rick Mears

»  ”In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.”
– Van Morrison

»  ”You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.”
– Joe Namath

»  ”Win or lose, playing at all is winning.”
– Wolfgang Nording

»  ”If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.”
– Jesse Owens

»  ”Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.”
– Fred Perry

»  ”Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.”
– Bum Phillips

»  ”The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.”
– Francis Picabia

»  ”The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.”
– Barbara Pletcher

»  ”Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.”
– Polybius

»  ”From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.”
– Pat Riley

»  ”You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.”
– Damon Runyon

»  ”If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just to finish the race — it’s up to you.”
– Dave Scott

»  ”Nothing can seem foul to those who win.”
– William Shakespeare

»  ”There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.”
– Willie Shoemaker

»  ”For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.”
– Emmitt Smith

»  ”Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy’s troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.”
– Sun Tzu

»  ”Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
– Jonathan Swift

»  ”Winning isn’t everything, but losing is nothing.”
– Red Symons

»  ”Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.”
– Brian Tracy

»  ”Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.”
– Donald Trump

»  ”The only way to be number one is to be number one.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Remember that the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that’s nobly done will always repay the cost.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”A winner loses more often than losers.”
– Source Unknown

»  ”A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits”
– Source Unknown

»  ”Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.”
– Bobby Unser

»  ”One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.”
– Denis Waitley

»  ”It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.”
– Addison Walker

»  ”The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses.”
– William A. Ward

»  ”Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

»  ”Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.”
– John Wooden

»  ”You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”
– Harriet Woods

»  ”I don’t know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.”
– Tiger Woods

»  ”Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.”
– Zig Ziglar

»  ”I’ve learned that you don’t have to win first place to win.”
– Kim Zmeskal