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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."
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"Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence."
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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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"Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half."
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"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that."
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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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"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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"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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"The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win."
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"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."
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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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"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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"I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off."
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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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"It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough."
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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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"Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy."
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"I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything."
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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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"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 an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery."
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"The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat."
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"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor."
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"Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later."
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"I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning."
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