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"I think it's always when you go to caddie for another player, it's no different to when you start with a new player. The very most important thing is when you get the first opportunity to have a win is to try and show them that you know what you're doing. It's easier said than done."
"To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games."
"Once you are completely comfortable with charging, then - and only then - will you allow yourself to do things for free. That way if you perform a kindness for another, you will know that you are doing it because you want to, not because you have been manipulated into it or are maneuvering in the hopes of winning their affection."
"Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win."
"Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field."
"Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!"
"The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end."
"And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time."
"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
"Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals."
"Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken."
"I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game."
"If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life."
"I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win."
"The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win."
"I think being born in Belarus, coming here with nothing, my parents working every minute - that instilled a huge competitive advantage, a chip on my shoulder, a work ethic. Immigrants win a lot and they win a lot because of a couple core things."
"Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women."
"Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about."
"To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians."
"[Wladimir] Klitschko has got the experience, so if Tyson [Fury] waits on him, Klitschko will out-box him. But if he uses his speed and reach it will be a great chance for him to win."
