Winning & Losing Quotations
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[page 1]Of course, there are worse things that can happen in life than losing a game, but we all know the pain we can feel after a difficult loss, or even the joy we feel after a great win. This game is one of joy and pain. If you want to feel the joy, you must be willing to suffer; like taking the final shot, planning a different strategy, etc... This game is not a matter of life and death -- it only feels that way sometimes!
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"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you."
-- Elmer Davis"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"
-- Vince Lombardi"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
-- B.C. ForbesPregame Prayer: Dear Lord, we pray that we should play a good clean game to win. But if you choose that we should lose keep us from giving in.
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
The difference between losing and winning is usually the difference between doing little things nearly right and doing them exactly right.
A loser becomes bitter when he's behind and careless when he's ahead; a winner keeps his equilibrium no matter which position he happens to find himself in.
A winner focuses; a loser sprays.
The thrill is not just in winning, but in having the courage to join the race.
A winner makes commitments; a loser makes promises.
A winner is like a tea bag; he discovers his strength only in hot water.
A winner seeks for the goodness in a bad man, and works with that part of him; a loser looks only for the badness in a good man, and therefore finds it hard to work with anyone.
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald"The minute you start talking about what you are going to do if you lose, you have lost."
-- George Shultz"Winning isn't everything -- but wanting to win is."
-- Vince LombardiYou don't have to have the lead if you have the heart to come from behind.
Forget mistakes. Organize victory out of mistakes.
Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.
"It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart."
-- Michael Jordan"Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll give you a failure."
-- Knute RockneThe most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can.
"Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy."
-- Mike Ditka"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."
-- General George S. PattonTo be a winner, all you need to give is all you have.
"If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win."
-- Paul "Bear" BryantIf you make every game a life-and-death situation, you're going to have problems...for one thing you'll be dead a lot.
To win it all, a team has to be obsessive about the fundamentals and the little things.
Winners expect to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A quiet gym is a loser's gym.
"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is."
-- Zig Zaglar"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore RooseveltTo be a winner, all you need to give is all you have.
Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
Winners must have two things, definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
"If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself you should have."
-- Hale Irwin"One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do-it-yourself project."
-- Denis Waitley"When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lost it."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."
-- Brian Tracy"Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats."
-- Ralph W. Sockman"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win."
-- Les BrownAlways remember, your opponent wants to win as much as you do.
"Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'"
-- Dan Parker"Winners make it happen. Losers let it happen."
-- George Lehmann"A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best."
-- Ken Doherty"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
-- Walt DisneyDoubters don't win. Winners don't doubt.
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
-- Pierre Corneille"I want us to be hard to beat."
-- Brad Childress"It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson."
-- George Lucas"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
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