"Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat."
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"You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose."
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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."
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"I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet."
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"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."
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"Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others."
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"nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it."
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"Never settle for anything less than your best."
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"We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here."
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"I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win."
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"In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the Presidency, and can’t win their fights in Courts. For this right-wing minority, hostage-taking is all they have left – a last gasp of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracy."
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"I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same."
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"Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle."
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"This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins."
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"We don't win what we don't fight for."
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"He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared."
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"Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses."
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"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
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"The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the odds, in the face of danger, and win."
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"We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran."
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