Winning Quotes - Page 33

• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Baseball

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

  Halle Berry

  Fall, Expectations, People

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• Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

  Joe Biden

  Party, Successful, Able

  "Biden's Brief" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2008.

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• Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.

  Rachel Bilson

  Fun, Laughing, Personality

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• You've got to be stupid to heckle me - I am very equipped to win.

  Lewis Black

  Stupid

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• My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

  Tony Blair

  Strong, Views, Order

  "Meet the new Labour adviser: Tony Blair" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

  Mary J. Blige

  Stories, Win Or Lose, Ends

  Song: No More Drama

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• I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, Want, Danger

  "Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will 'Have to Change' After Boston Bombing" by Jill Colvin, observer.com. April 22, 2013.

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• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  Wade Boggs

  Sports, New York, Opportunity

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• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  Usain Bolt

  Running, Celebrate, Ifs

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

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• Calgary wins for my coldest New Year's Eve gig. That's when I learned Fahrenheit and Celsius cross at 40 below. I could see callers' breath coming out of my phone.

  Elayne Boosler

  New Year, Phones, Years

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• As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Motivational, Boys, Player

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• I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

  Tom Brady

  Loser, Winner, Terrible

  Interview with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. June, 2005.

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• To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Team, Needs

  "Leftovers from Tom Brady interview" by Field Yates, www.espn.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

  Tom Brady

  Thinking, Games, Play

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

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• We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

  Richard Branson

  Years, Survival, Battle

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• Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

  John Breaux

  New Year, Team, Thinking

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• I love the Cowboys in the early 90s. That was their heyday, winning all those Super bowls. Troy Aikman was a person I looked up to.

  Drew Brees

  Cowboy, Heyday, Super Bowl

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• Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Dirty, Book, Naughty

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  Garth Brooks

  Nashville, People, Guy

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• If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

  Mel Brooks

  Soapbox, Dictator, Rhetoric

  "Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Horse, Dry Up

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• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  Tammy Bruce

  Trials, Innocence, Guilty

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.264, Crown Forum

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• People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, People, Obsessed

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• I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

  Kobe Bryant

  Thinking, Championship, Coaches

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