Quotations about

Winning

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

—Marcus Garvey

Most ball games are lost, not won.

—Casey Stengel

Winning is a habit.

—Leo Durocher

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

—Marcus Garvey

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

—Abbie Hoffman

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

—Jeannette Rankin

I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.

—Claudia Gray in Stargazer

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

—Vince Lombardi

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

—Flip Wilson

Virtue consisted in winning: it consisted in being bigger, stronger, handsomer, richer, more popular, more elegant, more unscrupulous than other people—in dominating them, bullying them, making them suffer pain, making them look foolish, getting the better of them in every way. Life was hierarchical and whatever happened was right. There were the strong, who deserved to win and always did win, and there were the weak, who deserved to lose and always did lose, everlastingly.

—George Orwell

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

—William Hazlitt

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

—Charles Caleb Colton

It's never just a game when you're winning.

—George Carlin

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

—Vince Lombardi

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

—Yogi Berra