"I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else."

Weaver, Earl on optimism   

"Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost."

Navratilova, Martina on losers and losing
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"Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success."

Schwartz, David J. on goals
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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."

Macarthur, Douglas on power
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"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."

Paterno, Joe on preparation
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"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."

Powell, Colin on effort
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"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

King, Billie Jean on fear   

"Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy."

Unknown, Source on expectation   

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

Lombardi, Vince on winners and winning   

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."

Lombardi, Vince on winners and winning
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"Individuals play the game, but teams win championships."

Unknown, Source on work   

"You win not by chance, but by preparation."

Maris, Roger on planning   

"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on thoughts and thinking
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"Ever notice that people never say It's only a game when they're winning?"

Ball, Ivern on winners and winning   

"If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised
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"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting."

Vermeil, Dick on commitment   

"We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them."

Moffat, Robert on victory   

"If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can."

Unknown, Source on belief
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"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."

Lombardi, Vince on cooperation
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"If winning (success) was easy, then everybody would be doing it. It's the hard that makes it great!"

Movie, A League of Their Own on winners and winning
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"A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy."

Twain, Mark on training   

"No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning."

Petty, Richard on perseverance   

"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win."

Brown, Les on winners and winning   

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Bannister, Roger on determination
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"When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win."

Graf, Steffi on losers and losing   

"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself."

Nixon, Richard M. on hatred
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"A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning."

Riley, Pat on motivation
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"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves."

Ditka, Mike on motivation
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"Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts."

Staubach, Roger on training
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"In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this."

Mays, Willie on dedication
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"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win."

Comaneci, Nadia on work
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"Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else."

Ashford, Evelyn on work
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"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

Landers, Ann on opportunity
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"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."

Nielson, G. K. on success
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"Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough"

Unknown, Source on work
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"There is no substitute for hard work."

Edison, Thomas A. on work
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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on work
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"Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last."

Holt, Hamilton on success
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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

Gingrich, Newt on perseverance
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"Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."

Lombardi, Vince on football
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