Winner Quotes - Page 14

• Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

  George Clooney

  Tombstone, Oscars, Great Things

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• Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

  Stephen Colbert

  Presidential, Lists, Selling

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• Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to 'Top Chef' although they're not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There's just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don't win, they're all talented.

  Tom Colicchio

  Winning, Chef, Well Known

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• In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

  Mason Cooley

  Games, Literature, Loser

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• If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

  Barbara Corcoran

  People, Might, Should

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• Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

  Ice Cube

  Football, Dog, Youth

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• So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Technology, People

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• The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.

  Craig Ferguson

  Winning, Truth Is, Approach

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• We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

  Hayden Fry

  Looks, Fields, Broke

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• The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.

  Matt Taibbi

  Phones, Games, Age

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.213, Spiegel & Grau

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• Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?

  Janet Evanovich

  Brain, Decided

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• Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.

  Jay-Z

  Sports, Stupid, Athlete

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• A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he i A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he is still racing. He is still alive

  Garth Stein

  Fate, Race, Track

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• Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kissing, Biting, Excellent

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• Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

  John Green

  Real, War, Cancer

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• Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

  Terry Pratchett

  Alive, Loser, Pleasure

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• So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They solve problems, such as how to get inner-city kids to spend $175 on shoes. They serve as a backdrop for some of our most memorable commercials. And they remain the one and only relevant application of math. Not only that, but we have sports to thank for most of the last century's advances in manliness. The system starts in school, where gym class separates the men from the boys. Then those men are taught to be winners, or at least, losers that hate themselves.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sports, Hate, Kids

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• When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Play, Justice

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• History gets written by the winners.

  Cassandra Clare

  Written

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no winners in real games.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Real, Games, No Winners

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "A Game", Chapter: "Game II", p. 97), June 13, 2012.

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• Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice.” ~ Durzo Blint

  Brent Weeks

  Mean, Winning, Justice

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.

  Miranda July

  Beautiful, Winning, Would Be

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Fools fight; winners think.

  Karen Chance

  Fighting, Thinking, Fool

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.457, Penguin

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• Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.

  Steven Levenkron

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• She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!

  Steven Levenkron

  Cutting, Two, Mind

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