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Sports & Teamwork: Victory Quotes

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"One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them"
John Madden, Coach
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"To the victors belong the spoils"
Andrew Jackson, President
Andrew Jackson
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"When we conquer without danger, our triumph is without glory"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
Pierre Corneille
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"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat"
Malcolm Forbes, Publisher
Malcolm Forbes
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"I came, I saw, I conquered"
Julius Caesar, Leader
Julius Caesar
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"The only meaningful statistic is number of games won"
Woody Hayes, Coach
Woody Hayes
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"You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood"
Ayrton Senna, Celebrity
Ayrton Senna
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"To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent"
Johan Cruijff, Athlete
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"We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose"
Knute Rockne, Coach
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"Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one"
Mike Krzyzewski, Coach
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"Because they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner"
Don Shula, Coach
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"I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees"
Ben Hogan, Athlete
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"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning"
Didier Drogba, Athlete
Didier Drogba
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"To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold"
Joe Sakic, Athlete
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"Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup"
Joe Sakic, Athlete
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"Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship"
LeBron James, Athlete
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"I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches"
Pete Sampras, Athlete
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"People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far"
Marcel Dionne, Athlete
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"I think I was more or less convinced of that by just the press, the US press, by people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russians, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth"
Ralph Boston, Athlete
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"Watch my dust"
George Herman, Journalist
George Herman
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"Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning"
Dave Bristol, Celebrity
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"Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business"
Luis Figo, Athlete
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"When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life"
Sarah Hughes, Athlete
Sarah Hughes
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"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next"
George Steinbrenner, Businessman
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"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
Winston Churchill
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"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win"
Michael Jordan, Athlete
Michael Jordan
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"There are no pleasures in a fight, but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win"
Muhammad Ali, Athlete
Muhammad Ali
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"I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart"
John Madden, Coach
John Madden
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"If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election"
Barack Obama, President
Barack Obama
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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation"
Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist
Hunter S. Thompson
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"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless"
Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman
Robert H. Schuller
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"Victory puts us on a level with heaven"
Lucretius, Poet
Lucretius
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"Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play"
Woody Hayes, Coach
Woody Hayes
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"Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization"
Woody Hayes, Coach
Woody Hayes
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"I'm a winner each and every time I go into the ring"
George Foreman, Athlete
George Foreman
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"I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring"
George Foreman, Athlete
George Foreman
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"Of course, there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning"
Ayrton Senna, Celebrity
Ayrton Senna
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"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that"
Ayrton Senna, Celebrity
Ayrton Senna
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"If you don't try to win, you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard"
Jesse Owens, Athlete
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