Winning Quotes - Page 40

• Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

  Imran Khan

  Boys, Proud, Today

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• I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

  Imran Khan

  Heart, Mind, Trying

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• Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

  Imran Khan

  Heart, People, Mind

  "Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2012.

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• I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

  Nicole Kidman

  Awards, Musical

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

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• I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

  Val Kilmer

  Want, Oscars, I Can

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• You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Spiritual, Light, Darkness

  "A Beacon in the Night". Interview with William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. December 19, 2008.

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• The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fighting, Army, Doe

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

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• Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Jobs, Men, White Man

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• As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Games, Coaches

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• During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Texas, Years

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• Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Umpires, Design, Competition

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• The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Disappointment, Expectations, Joy

  "The joys of losing". Column, jewishworldreview.com. April 23, 2010.

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• I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Lying, Night, Ideas

  "Obama's nuclear strutting and fretting" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Two, Kentucky

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Games, Imagination

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Teacher

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Thinking, Two

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Passion, Opportunity

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Mean, Sides, Compromise

  "Compromise Is Not a Dirty Word" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Opportunity, Oscars, Havens

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• A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

  Louis L'Amour

  Wise, Wisdom, Fighting

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.252, Bantam

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• I think about all my successes and failures and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

  Frank Lampard

  Moving, Thinking, Sticks

  "Frank Lampard eager to lead Chelsea over Champions League final hurdle". Interview with Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Depressing, Disappointed, Loses

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• You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.

  Chris LeDoux

  Loan, Buddy

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• I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Money, Play

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