Winner Quotes - Page 5

• Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

  Denis Waitley

  People, Purpose, Definite

  Denis Waitley (1996). “Psychology of Success: Developing Your Self-esteem”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

  Maria Sharapova

  Thinking, Waiting, Needs

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• Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

  Woody Hayes

  Civilization

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• The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Mistake, Chess, Lasts

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• It's hard to convince a winner that he's losing.

  Mike Caro

  Losing, Convince, Hard

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• Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.

  Brit Hume

  Responsibility, Blame, Loser

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• Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

  Garry Kasparov

  Levels, Chess, Loser

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• Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

  Damon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.

  Ita Buttrose

  Wisdom, Impossible, Loser

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• Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Winning, Past

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• Winners surround themselves with other winners. A winner knows he's a winner. He doesn't need second-raters and yes-men around to feed his ego. He knows he'll win more, and go further, with associates who not only can keep up with him but who also are capable of teaching him something.

  Harvey Mackay

  Teaching, Winning, Men

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• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Running, Determination

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• We have Americans who are voting for someone in whom they have confidence, about whom they have hope, because at after the election 2016 whoever wins is going to have to govern. And when you look at the tenor of this campaign, and when you look at the way people feel about these candidates and how partisan our country is for starters, how does the winner govern? I mean that's the real, real problem.

  Frank Bruni

  Country, Real, Mean

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

  William Westmoreland

  War, Winning, Succeed

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• I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Destiny, Circles

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• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  E. O. Wilson

  Struggle, Religion, Atheism

  "Consilience". Book by Edward Osborne Wilson, 1998.

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• Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

  Joanne Harris

  Book, Writing, Leaving

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• The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Memories, Regret, Past

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.94, Knopf Group E-Books

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• He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.

  Richard Yates

  Feels

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.242, Random House

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• Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

  Erich Segal

  Victory, Able, Loser

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Hate, Treats, Runners

  "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

  Phil McGraw

  Differences, Want, Loser

  Phil McGraw (2013). “Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

  Ian Fleming

  Loss, Gains, Loser

  Ian Fleming (1955). “Moonraker”, Penguin Group USA

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• There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

  Jodi Picoult

  Giving, Sides, Loser

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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