"Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself."
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"To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest."
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"But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying."
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"Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win."
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"Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on."
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"When you don't win I think you have to evaluate everybody."
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"I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business."
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"I've never been one to look at numbers or think about stuff like that. The only numbers I worry about are wins and losses-that's always been my biggest priority."
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"I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that."
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"Winning is all in the attitude!"
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"There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance."
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"Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won."
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"I want to be on that team that wins the world championship here in Chicago and sees the city go crazy."
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"We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side."
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"The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class."
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"If Trump were a boxer, he'd be Muhammad Ali. Because he's going to win. He's going to run his mouth, he's going to talk a lot and he's going to win. And you ain't going to know which way he's going. You had the Louisville Lip, he'd be the New York Lip!"
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"It's about finding what's next. I'm hesitant to let people know what producers I'm f---ing with, what I'm rapping about. I'd rather drop that winning hand out of nowhere."
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"The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'"
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"I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky."
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"Public opinion wins wars."
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