"A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?"
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"One of the primary tactics for enduring winning is daily learning."
"Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep."
"For you to win, no one needs to lose."
"Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women."
"You can’t depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win."
"There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past."
"Getting the first win is very important. I think that takes a lot of pressure off going forward."
"If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?"
"The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer."
"While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom."
"He [Johnny Cash] was so fragile. We invaded Iraq in March, and he died in September. And because his health was so fragile, he couldn't take the controversy of making a public statement against the war. He knew that people were rabid. They attacked me mercilessly after I did the press conference with Musicians United to Win Without War. He knew that he couldn't tolerate that."
"Nature is bent on new beginning and death has not a chance of winning."
"Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us."
"The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win."
"The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition."
"There's no biological reason why a man shouldn't just try to have sex with every woman he meets - all of them get pregnant and your genetics are winning."
"The politicians already in office don't want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start working for the people, but even some of the most progressive politicians are silent because they know that the candidate with the most money wins."
"Everybody wants to win. You know, nobody ever wants to feel like they lost. That was probably one of biggest lessons I learned. You don't want to be that guy sort of banging fist on table telling somebody what you want. People want to feel like they had enough value on both sides that the deal worked out on both ends. I had an incredible team in place that really supported me and I would not have been able to get the deal done had it not been for those people."
"Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers."