Winning Quotes - Page 32

• I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Loyalty, Careers

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• There's something behind the decision to choose to lash out at a woman. The answer to how to fix internet trolling is like fixing sexism. How do you do that? I'm of the opinion that discourse helps, that changing people's minds changes people's actions. On a more practical level, I do enjoy sassing back at trolls, because I always win, because my job makes me better at arguing. If I can frustrate or embarrass a troll, then that lodges in that person's brain that trolling me is not a consequence-free hobby.

  Lindy West

  Decision, Brain, Mind

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• It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random patterns. I need the joke to hurt more; I want it to sink deeper than the postmodern grin.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Hurt, Fun, Teenager

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• To me probably the biggest disappointments, as far as a football career goes, is I feel like I didn't live up to my potential, and I didn't win a Super Bowl ring.

  Donte Stallworth

  Football, Disappointment, Rings

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• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  Hank Aaron

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

  Frank Abagnale

  Team, Yankees

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• Slow but steady wins the race.

  Aesop

  Race, Literature, Steady

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.23, Aesop

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• Plodding wins the race.

  Aesop

  Perseverance, Race

  Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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• Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  War, Believe, Europe

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

  Charles L. Allen

  Love, Self, People

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• A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

  Ted Allen

  New York, Eye, Cities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Badass, People, Storyteller

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• I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Believe, Yankees

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• I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

  Lance Armstrong

  Unfair Advantage, Seven, Claims

  "Armstrong gives up fight against doping charges". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2012.

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• It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Nice, Golf

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• In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Exercise, Artillery, Accurate

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• The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs did get to know me, they weren't sure that I could win the seat.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, Party, Minnesota

  Michele Bachmann (2011). “Core of Conviction: My Story”, p.15, Penguin

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• Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

  Kevin Bacon

  Mean, Opportunity, Awards

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• I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

  Erykah Badu

  Blessed, Awards, Parent

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Basketball, Team

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• 'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mean, Hollywood, Salmon

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• I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Kids, Artist, Perfect

  Jean Michel Basquiat, Rudy Chiappini (2005). “Basquiat”, Museo D'Arte Moderna Citta Di Lugano

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• I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

  Beck

  Expectations, Praying, Starving

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• From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Verses (1910) "Dedicatory Ode"

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• I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

  Yogi Berra

  Kids, Fighting, Get Better

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