"I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play."
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"One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it."
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"You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light."
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"Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!"
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"Don't talk too much or too soon."
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"Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win."
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"Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year."
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"Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity."
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"I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that."
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"Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power."
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"If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal."
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"Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options."
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"To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms."
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"I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within."
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"I know there are certain things that I just can't win."
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"Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine)."
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"History is written by the victors."
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"It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time."
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"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
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"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
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