Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. — Warren Buffett
You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness — Brad Stevens
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn. — Tom Landry
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. — Scotty Bowman
Short Winning Games Quotes
Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win. — Tony La Russa
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning. — Dave Bristol
It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way. — Antonio Davis
Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half. — Bum Phillips
To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team. — Jurgen Klopp
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. — Earl Weaver
Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms. — Tom Izzo
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. — Vince Lombardi
Play to win, but enjoy the fun. — David Ogilvy
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. — Vince Lombardi
Top 10 Winning Games Quotes
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. — Voltaire
Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time — William Shakespeare
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
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
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Love is a game that two can play and both win. — Eva Gabor
When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal of their character.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. — Babe Ruth
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
Winning Football Games Quotes
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God. — Theodore Hesburgh
I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation. — Bob Devaney
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. — Gary Lineker
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true. — Johnny Manziel
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts. — Darrell Royal
Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing. — Lewis Howes
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement. — Dennis Bergkamp
I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it. — Joe Namath
Football - it's not fun when you lose. That's a heartbreaking thing. But then there's a new week, and a new opportunity and I definitely get happier and happier as that new opportunity approaches. So 'win the next game,' that's my mindset. — Jim Harbaugh
Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake. — John Facenda
Hunger Games Quotes
District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety. — Suzanne Collins
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. — Suzanne Collins
Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor. — Suzanne Collins
Every time you are able to find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever. — Suzanne Collins
To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed. — Suzanne Collins
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. — Suzanne Collins
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. — Suzanne Collins
I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games. — Isabelle Fuhrman
I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I. — Suzanne Collins
Love me or hate me, it's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran. A champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved, for the exact same reasons. — Kobe Bryant
Win Or Lose Game Quotes
When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had. — Joe Montana
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose? — Charles Baudelaire
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain. — Casey Stengel
There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game. — Lionel Messi
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess. — Marcel Duchamp
The difference between winning and losing is most often not qiuting.
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent. — Sue Wicks
You don't win or lose the games bcoz of 11 you select.
You win or lose with what those 11 do on the field. — Rahul Dravid
Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. — Gene Autry
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it. — William Hazlitt
Game Winner Quotes
Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting. — Bernie Sanders
Winners see what they want. Losers see what they don't want. Don't let the game eat you; you eat the game. — Moe Norman
To me the real winners are the ones who step out of the game entirely, who don’t even play the game; who rise above it. Those are the people who have such internal mental and self control and self awareness that they need nothing from anybody else. — Naval Ravikant
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to leave the world a better place... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins. — Gary Lineker
If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose. — Malcolm Forbes
I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life. — Gale Sayers
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything. — Carli Lloyd
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. — Lou Holtz
Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers. — Eugene Fama
Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners. — Brad Feld
Game Show Quotes
I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter. — Bill Laimbeer
I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats. — Ray Lewis
News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right. — John Oliver
Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Play this game like the 8 year old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show! Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from! — Bryce Harper
You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap. — Norm MacDonald
I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game. — Ron White
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera. — Douglas Rushkoff
You don't show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens
in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. — Michael Jordan
In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it. — Brooke Burke
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude. — Richard Rodney Bennett
Winning Sports Quotes
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose — Lee Chong Wei
Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal. — Kerri Walsh
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. — Wilma Rudolph
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you. — Seve Ballesteros
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. — George Lincoln Rockwell
There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Paul Tournier
Winning Team Quotes
I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot. — Jim Harbaugh
Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win. — Bill Parcells
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. — W. Edwards Deming
If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win. — Allen Iverson
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. — Ross Perot
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do. — Bill Belichick
Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it. — Mia Hamm
My saying is; We win and lose together. I think that really does apply to both my fans, family and the team. — Lewis Hamilton
Winning Is Everything Quotes
Winning is contagious, you know its a thought. It's not something that just happens on Sundays. You know that's something, like you have to live like a winner. You have to think like a winner. You have to eat like a winner. Everything that you do with life, you gotta be a winner. — Cam Newton
This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win. — James Harden
In every disagreement in your marriage, remember that there is not a winner and a loser. You are partners in everything, so you will either win together or lose together. Always work together to find a solution. — Dave Willis
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. — Damon Hill
When you get a trophy, why go jumping and crying? Winning‘s a great feeling, but everything else is an anti-climax. — Stephen Hendry
Once you are in it you are in it, you have to go all the way to the end because you commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have absolutely everything. Sometimes you find even more because you require more if you want to stay ahead and you want to win. — Ayrton Senna
Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning. — Craig Stadler
When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose. — Karch Kiraly
I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything. — Saina Nehwal
Winning Football Quotes
I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best — Neymar
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled. — Andres Iniesta
When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life. — Arsene Wenger
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back. — Bear Bryant
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated — Emmitt Smith
The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies. — Roman Abramovich
Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League. — Tony Dungy
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. — Jose Mourinho
I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power. — Jim Harbaugh
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. — Michael Jordan
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. — Kobe Bryant
Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness. — Gregg Popovich
I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal. — Alexis Arguello
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. — Abdul Kalam
A good player works hard to win the game everyone else is playing. A great player creates a new game that favors their strengths and avoids their weaknesses. — James Clear
Don't try to accumulate assets with unlimited supply. It's a game you will never win. Only the supplier wins. — Changpeng Zhao
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. — Anita Brookner
You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal…Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it’s a loser’s game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else. — Tim Tebow
Don’t try to accumulate assets with unlimited supply. It’s a game you will never win. Only the supplier wins. Instead, only accumulate assets with limited supply. — Changpeng Zhao
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. — James Clear
So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games — Geno Auriemma
Don't play a game where they can change the rules when you are just about to win. Just leave and let them play with themselves. — Changpeng Zhao
No one ever won a game by resigning. — Savielly Tartakower
I just want to keep working hard, stay humble, and keep trying to win games. — Damian Lillard
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. — Tommy Lasorda
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. — H. Ross Perot
If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it. — Michael Lewis
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