"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."
-- Sylvester Stallone
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can."
-- Richard Bach
"Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
-- The Special Olympics Oath
"Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing."
-- Phil Jackson
"With borrowed will, 'Get up', she said, 'You haven't lost at all, for winning is not more than this: to rise each time you fall.'"
-- D.H. Groberg
"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."
-- Martina Navratilova
"I learned as a youngster, a long time ago, that if you can look in the mirror and know you've given it your best shot, you're a winner."
-- Michael Jordan
"When our goal is to try to do our best, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort -- instead of numbers on the scoreboard -- we will never lose."
-- Mike Krzyzewski
"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."
-- Vince Lombardi
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
"A man who never quits is never defeated."
-- Senator Fred Thompson
"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
-- Vince Lombardi
"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do."
-- Dennis Waitley
"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win."
-- Shelley Long
Be humble in victory and gracious in defeat.
"Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win."
-- Bobby Knight
If you think small things don't matter, think of the last game you lost by one point.
"When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning, they called me eccentric."
-- Al McGuire
"Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor."
-- Abe Lemons
"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."
-- Larry Bird
"There is no 'I' in team but there is in win."
-- Michael Jordan
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