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Winning Quotes
"Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave."
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"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
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"After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over."
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"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."
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"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything."
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"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."
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"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that."
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"Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half."
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"The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win."
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"We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side."
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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."
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"The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat."
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"I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!"
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"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second."
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"It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough."
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"Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions."
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"Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy."
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"No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning."
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"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."
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"I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning."
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"Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck."
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"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."
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"I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything."
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"And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote."
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