"A winner never whines"

"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong"

"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way"

"Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails"

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner"

"A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive"

"I'm a winner each and every time I go into the ring"

"I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring"

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner"

"In love, the one who runs away is the winner"

"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will"