Winner Quotes - Page 28

• For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Nature, Turkeys

  "Obama pardons two Thanksgiving turkeys with mercy and humour" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2012.

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• In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.

  Chris Evert

  Happiness, Winning, Tennis

  "I've Lived A Charmed Life". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

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• Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

  Kathy Whitworth

  Golf, Games, Missing

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• I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

  Donald Freed

  Dream, Failure, Mean

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• In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.71, Penguin

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• The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.

  Nigel Benn

  Hate, Men, Balls

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• Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.

  June Goodfield

  Race, Patents, Example

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• The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Motivational, Sports, Motor Racing

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• The only winner today is big business.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Historical, Today, Bigs

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• In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

  Jon Porter

  Pregnancy, Community, Facts

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• When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.

  John Eldredge

  Fun, Winter, Boys

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• Declare the United States the winner and begin de-escalation.

  George Aiken

  War, United States, Cold

  "George Aiken, Longtime Senator and G.O.P. Maverick, Dies at 92" by Albin Krebs, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 1984.

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• Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense

  Gary Johnson

  Government, Trying, Moral

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• 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

  Sports, House, Down And

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• On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Winning

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• Well, it's basically the viewers who determine it. We - well, basically the producers and myself chose the people we felt had the best reaction, you know, through the press, the Internet, the people we thought deserved a second chance. And they've chosen a winner, I believe.

  Simon Cowell

  Believe, Second Chance, People

  "Simon Cowel Dishes on America's Got Talent". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 12, 2008.

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• When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to get it. It's going to be shelved in crime and it's just the way it is. I've done something that no one else has ever done; I've started out as a mystery writer, a police writer, and a crime writer, and I became something entirely different.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Thinking, Awards

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.

  Chika Anadu

  Years, Two, Paris

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• People want to know everyone for a lot of different reasons. It doesn't have to be anything as big as an Oscar nomination. It could be a brand new job. People see their opportunity. And, when you're winning, everyone loves a winner.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Jobs, Winning, Opportunity

  Source: collider.com

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• If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion.

  Jaime Escalante

  Students, Wells, Occasions

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• Every now and then, a technology comes along that is so profound, so powerful, so universal, that its impact will change everything. It will transform every institution in the world. It will create winners and losers, will change the way we do business, the way we teach our children, communicate and interact as individuals.

  Lou Gerstner

  Children, Powerful, Technology

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• At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Country, Struggle, Dark

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• If we can make Washington more like Texas, the whole country will be a winner.

  John Cornyn

  Country, Texas, Whole

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• Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Use, Reputation

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• When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Want, Juggernaut

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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