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It’s a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose. Bob Dole, 6th November 1996
You can’t win anything with kids. Alan Hansen, Match of the Day 1995, before run of victories by young Manchester United team
You’re just kids. How can you win like that when you’re just kids. United, BBC 2011
It’s The Sun Wot Won It. The Sun, general election 1992
Spy: George, you won.
George: Did I? Yes, yes I suppose I did. Smiley’s People, BBC 1982, cited Andrew Marr, Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers I: Detective, BBC 2016
It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please … If you have money you spend it, and win. Rose Kennedy, re Robert’s 1968 campaign
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. Bernadette Devlin
So we won. But what did we do with our victory? We unleashed the power of turbo-capitalism. Dominic Sandbrook, Strange Days – Cold War Britain III, BBC 2013
Lance Armstrong had begun an incredible comeback before his winning streak had even begun beating the odds to recover from cancer ... Armstrong surprised everyone by winning the 1999 Tour de France ... He raced in 2000 and won again. By 2001 he was totally dominant ... In 2005 he completed an incredible winning streak by winning his seventh Tour de France. Hall of Fame: Winning Streaks
My mentality was go out and win at any cost. Michael Jordan, cited The Last Dance VII, Netflix 2020
So shall we win through to a better day? F D Roosevelt, cited The Soul of America, Sky Documentaries 2020
Winning? That can be heavy on your back too like a monkey. The Hustler 1961 starring Paul Newman & Jackie Gleason & Piper Laurie & George C Scott & Myron McCormick & Murray Hamilton & Stefan Gierasch et al, Shark to Fast Eddie
She: Is he a winner?
He: Well he owns things.
She: Is that what makes a winner?
He: Well what else does? ibid.
You gotta have two things to win: you’ve gotta have brains, and you gotta have balls. The Color of Money 1986 starring Paul Newman & Tom Cruise & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Helen Shaver & John Turturro & Bill Cobbs & Robert Agins & Alvin Anastasia & Iggy Popp & Forest Whitaker et al, director Martin Scorsese
There’s only one side to be on and that’s the winning one. When Eight Bells Toll 1971 starring Anthony Hopkins & Corin Redgrave & Jack Hawkins & Robert Morley & Nathalie Delon & Derek Bond & Ferdy Mayne & Maurice Roeves & Leon Collins & Wendy Allnutt et al, director Etienne Perier, Hopkins
There’s nothing so depressing as a winning streak that won’t stop streaking. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s2e5: Cardassians, Quark
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Muhammad Ali
When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about this point or that, without offering positive solutions. Winners acknowledge the existence of the problem, but they try to offer practical ideas that can help resolve the matter in a manner that is satisfactory to both parties. George Foreman, Knockout Entrepreneur
You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win. Sugar Ray Leonard
Winning all the time is not necessarily good. John Toshack
If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing. Bill Shankly
You can’t win them all. Mid-20th century proverbs
You win a few, you lose a few. Mid-20th century proverbs
Who Dares Wins. Special Air Service regiment motto
Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while – you do them right all the time. Vince Lombardi
Winning is not everything – but making the effort to win is. Vince Lombardi
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog. Damon Hill, cited Sunday Times 18th December 1994
Sure, winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing. Henry Red Sanders, Sports Illustrated 26th December 1955
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. Lyndon B Johnson
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar
Sometimes you have to accept you can’t win all the time. Lionel Messi
Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you’re not a winner. Lady Gaga
The more you lose, the more you don’t win. Alex McLeish
A game is not won until it is lost. David Pleat
You’ll never win anything with kids. Alan Hansen
We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half. Kevin Keegan
Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins. Brian Moore
We (England) haven’t been scoring goals, but football’s not just about scoring goals. It’s about winning. Alan Shearer
‘The game,’ said gem, ‘is never lost till won.’ George Crabbe, 1754-1832, Tales of the Hall, 1819
There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too. Francis Drake, attributed
Aaaargh! Fucking hell! I’ve won! Ayrton Senna, Brasil 1991
In war, whichever side may call itself a victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. Neville Chamberlain