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"We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car."
"The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose."
"A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said."
"Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali."
"ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities."
"The only way to win World War III is to prevent it."
"To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races."
"Doubters don't win, winners don't doubt."
"The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right."
"Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there."
"Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance."
"You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing."
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
"The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win."
"You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear."
"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."
"The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win."
"When women live rich, in every sense of the word - financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually - everyone wins: you win, your family wins, your community wins, and the world wins."
"Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall."
"One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience."
