You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.
History is written by the victors.
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.
It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process -- what you learn about yourself by challenging yourself, the experiences you share with other people, the honesty the training demands -- those are things nobody can take away from you whether you finish twelfth or you're an Olympic Champion.
No one ever won a game by resigning.
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.
You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!
People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.
Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
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