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Winning Quotes
"I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out."
176
"Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence."
176
"Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave."
149
"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
140
"After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over."
125
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."
120
"As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field."
71
"You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model."
68
"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything."
60
"Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half."
53
"We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose."
52
"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that."
51
"The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win."
50
"There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side."
48
"I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them."
48
"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."
47
"I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!"
47
"This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously."
46
"I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us."
46
"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."
44
"Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy."
43
"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second."
43
"Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle."
42
"We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title."
42
"The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat."
42
"I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights."
42
"I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything."
42
"These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves."
41
"When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric."
41
"I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning."
41
"It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough."
40
"Fields are won by those who believe in the winning."
40
"No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning."
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