When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it's all about winning the trophies, really. It's not like golf.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

It's what every kid dreams of: winning a World Cup for your country. There's nothing that will ever, ever beat that or even compare to it.

If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you.

If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.

I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.

Any sport you're going to do, you're going to lose more than you win. People don't realize how hard it is to be an athlete. It's difficult.

We had Jesse Ventura in Minnesota win the governorship, nobody thought he was going to win. I'm telling you, stranger things have happened.

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

I never really know when anyone is nominated for anything; I just know when people win. I don't even know how the submission process works.

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.

Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally.

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

As long as you fight, you cannot lose... if you leave everything out there, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. To me you can never lose.

The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

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.

I won Michigan in a massive landslide. Remember, I beat Kasich. Remember, [John] Kasich was gonna win Michigan? There was only one problem.

Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.

Having been here before and lost to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.

America is in big trouble. We don't win anymore. We lose to China. We lose to Mexico both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody.

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.

I don't think my style of play is what has prevented me from winning major championships. I think that execution has been more of a factor.

When it is all about winning, once you've done it, you lose interest; stay focus on helping/developing young people as your long-term goal.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.

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.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

I am Valentino Rossi. If I stay in MotoGP it is to try to win. When that is not possible it is time to stay at home and work in the garden!

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

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