winning is not everything it is the only thing — Vince Lombardi
Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win — Vinnie Jones
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. — John Wooden
Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning. — Pete Carroll
Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that. — Ayrton Senna
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. — Vince Lombardi
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Coaches win practices, players win games — Pete Carril
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next. — George Steinbrenner
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
For me winning isn`t surprising at all — Dorian Yates
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. — Vince Lombardi
To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team. — Jurgen Klopp
Winning titles, that’s what I’m looking for. — Antoine Griezmann
I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything. — Saina Nehwal
Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms. — Tom Izzo
After winning, it’s hard to go to not winning. — Mikel Arteta
Top 10 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
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
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
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
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
Winning Sports Image Quotes
My failure gave me strength, my pain was my motivation.
I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver. — Michelle Kwan
The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose.
Inspirational Winning Sports Quotes
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great. — Shaquille O'Neal
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. — George P. Shultz
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series. — Tommy Lasorda
The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean. — Stephanie Gilmore
The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt. — Cristiano Ronaldo
Winning And Losing In Sports Quotes
The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second. — Michael Johnson
I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete. — Wayne Gretzky
It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general. — Tony Romo
I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win. — Snoop Dogg
The only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose. — Gerry DiNardo
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. — Hunter S. Thompson
If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error. — Jeff Schultz
When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports. — Tony Parker
When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose. — Sun Tzu
You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win. — Ben Crenshaw
Motivational Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross
No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt — Miyamoto Musashi
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
Not Winning In Sports Quotes
It's the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose. — Harry Sinden
Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines. — Clive Woodward
Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end. — Jon Bon Jovi
Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out. — Apolo Ohno
You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time. — Duke Snider
Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now. — Charles Barkley
The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. As a kid, they teach you not to play to win, but to grow in ability as a player. — Lionel Messi
Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win. — Vladimir Putin
We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or lose but how well you play the game." I used to think that was about sports, but as an adult, I realize what I create, do, etc., is more important than winning a prize. — Renee Lawless
Sports Winner Quotes
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Paul Tournier
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
Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves. — Al Oerter
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in. — Brian Owen
I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see". — Dick Fosbury
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. — Elgin Baylor
Winners In Sports Quotes
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor. — Pat Riley
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
In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice. — Bobby Rahal
All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure. — Roger Staubach
Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those. — Roy Baumeister
The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house. — John Madden
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. — Denis Waitley
Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for. — Mary Lou Retton
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to. — Venus Williams
Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. — Pat Riley
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
If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled. — Andres Iniesta
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
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
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
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
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
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
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
The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team. — Gianluigi Buffon
It's my dream and I see no point in speaking about other teams when I have these dreams. I think other people know that about me; I'm just hungry to win with Arsenal and that's it. — Robin van Persie
Winning Basketball Quotes
You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better. — Steffi Graf
The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours. — Woody Hayes
In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting. — Magic Johnson
My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals — Brad Stevens
Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness. — Gregg Popovich
To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. — Helio Gracie
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
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. — Phil Jackson
They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best. — Red Auerbach
Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls. — Suresh Raina
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
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
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
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
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
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn. — Tom Landry
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games. — Casey Stengel
Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game. — Nick Saban
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
When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand. — Jack Dempsey
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it. — Dan Gable
To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore. — Rocky Marciano
As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results. — Sania Mirza
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential. — Bobby Orr
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism. — Abebe Bikila
I didn't get into ultra-endurance sports to win races, beat others, or stand atop podiums. I got into it because it's a perfect template for self-discovery--a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual odyssey to more deeply understand myself, determine my purpose, and discover my place in the world. A way to tap into my unexplored reservoirs of potential--and touch the other side. This was the promise of Ultraman. And it delivered in spades. — Rich Roll
I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me! — Jimmy Connors
I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches. — Harvey Penick
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
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. — Ian Botham
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. — Chuck Daly
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
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus. — Carl Lewis
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. — Steve Yzerman
Winning means being unafraid to lose. — Fran Tarkenton
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