Winner Quotes

‘If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.’ – Bear Bryant

‘You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.’ – Emmitt Smith

‘The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘You cannot be a winner without maturity and consistency.’ – Marco Silva

‘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

‘Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.’ – Venus Williams

‘Not everyone gets to be a winner unless they choose to be. Winning is a mentality.’ – Valentin Chmerkovskiy

‘Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.’ – John Madden

‘I would say don’t take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We’re very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, ‘Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets – it works!” – Bo Burnham

‘A winner never stops trying.’ – Tom Landry

‘I always try to get the best result out of it, I’m not there to just sit second or sit third. I’m a winner, and I want to win every single race, and I will always go for it.’ – Max Verstappen

‘If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘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.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.’ – Denis Waitley

‘But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.’ – LeBron James

‘Everybody has bad days, but how you respond to it is a testament to whether you are a winner or a loser.’ – Aaron Gordon

‘I am beyond blessed and humbled to be named the Paul Hornung Award winner.’ – Christian McCaffrey

‘A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.’ – Eric Berne

‘In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.’ – Erwin Rommel

‘I’m just living life and enjoying it. Alive, kicking, and doing good. That’s what a real winner is.’ – Chamillionaire

‘Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It’s what you do after you cross the line that really counts.’ – Ralph Boston

‘I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.’ – Lando Norris

‘I think a winner has to be a master of preparation, they have to be a master of connection, extremely competitive and have really high standards for themselves and the people around them.’ – Maya Moore

‘You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.’ – Lionel Messi

‘In love, the one who runs away is the winner.’ – Henri Matisse

‘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.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘You do not fly the flags of losers over the winner’s country.’ – Killer Mike

‘Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.’ – Demetri Martin

‘You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.’ – Damon Runyon

‘The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.’ – Solomon Short

‘At the end of the day it’s better to be an unpleasant winner than a nice loser.’ – Giorgio Chiellini

‘I believe I have the attitude of a champion and a winner, and I’m not apologetic for it.’ – Jon Jones

‘How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.’ – Lou Holtz

‘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.’ – Halle Berry

‘No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.’ – Robert W. Service

‘Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.’ – Diane Arbus

‘There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.’ – Mia Hamm

‘When one side benefits more than the other, that’s a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.’ – Stephen Covey

‘I will be a World Cup winner.’ – Neymar

‘Renewable energy is a clear winner when it comes to boosting the economy and creating jobs.’ – Tom Steyer

‘You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you’ve got to kick your players in the rear end. You’ve got to cuss them out. You’ve got to hit them across the head. No. You don’t have to do that.’ – Bobby Bowden

‘The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.’ – Vicente del Bosque

‘A last-minute winner in front of the away fans – there’s nothing better.’ – Harry Maguire

‘A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘I don’t think there’s ever a winner in a feud. It’s about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain.’ – Ryan Murphy

‘You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.’ – Joe Namath

‘Learn how to be a loser, because it’s important to be a loser to be a winner.’ – Sanford I. Weill

‘We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.’ – Dan Gable

‘I don’t care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.’ – Gale Sayers

‘I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.’ – Tom Brady

‘Pro wrestling is not fake; it’s sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we’re not going to insult anyone’s intelligence – there is a predetermined winner. It’s just the fans don’t know who it is, and that’s what makes it so intriguing.’ – Kurt Angle

‘If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.’ – Barbara Corcoran

‘Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.’ – Joshua Waitzkin

‘What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.’ – Dayananda Saraswati

‘The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.’ – Ali Khamenei

‘Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.’ – Venus Williams

‘Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it’s about sporting achievements and it’s about personality, then I’m a winner hands down.’ – Tyson Fury

‘I’m a winner each and every time I go into the ring.’ – George Foreman

‘I’m confident, a winner, a joker and someone who will help anyone.’ – Ivan Toney

‘I’m a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.’ – David Ortiz

‘It’s only first place in NHL. Nobody remembers who’s second place. Everyone remembers the winner.’ – Alexander Ovechkin

‘Almost every culture has a cognitive bias for the tough guy, the alpha, the winner.’ – Rick Wilson

‘Everyone loves a winner. That’s just how the world is. And Ayrton Senna was one of the greatest winners this sport has ever had.’ – Lewis Hamilton

‘I can tell you that the Galacticos era in the early 2000s wasn’t just memorable for the fans. It was also incredible to be part of as a player. You would sit in the dressing room, look around you, and see the Ballon d’Or winner, the Spanish player of the year, the top scorer in La Liga, the best goalkeeper in the world.’ – Roberto Carlos

‘If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘You always know about the guys who are sorta like the moral winner. Then, all the sudden, a guy comes up – the average, hardworking young man – and pulls off something that’s, you know, totally unexpected, and in such a dynamic fashion.’ – Buster Douglas

‘The 1966 World Cup was the high point of my career. We may have lost the semi-final, but Portuguese football was a big winner.’ – Eusebio

‘I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.’ – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

‘No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.’ – Thomas Dewar

‘MaxCoin is competing for the crypto buck, if you will. So is Bitcoin, so is Dogecoin. Alt-coins are proving to be formidable because there’s a solid community behind it, there’s a use for it, and it’s got a great market capitalisation. I think that’s going to be a winner.’ – Max Keiser

‘I do have a belief in God, and no matter what happens to me, things are gonna be OK. It doesn’t matter whether the tumours have spread or not, because either way, I’m gonna turn out a winner.’ – Terry Fox

‘As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.’ – Gordon Ramsay

‘A winner never whines.’ – Paul Brown

‘Tournament play demands patience to survive and win. Winning at cash games demands a whole other level of thought and deception. You need to reach into your bag of tricks and run the occasional big bluff to be a consistent cash game winner.’ – Daniel Negreanu

‘When I was growing up reading history books as a young student, it seemed all wars had a winner. Yet in today’s wars, it is increasingly clear that no one wins. Everyone loses.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.’ – Lou Holtz

‘From Clara Barton’s tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.’ – Brian Kilmeade

‘Blake & Murphy were winners, I was a winner, and winners usually gravitate toward each other. They helped me, so I helped them in any way I could. I knew they were able to retain their NXT Tag Team Championship on their own, but when the matches weren’t going the way they wanted, I made sure to step in. We were an unstoppable group.’ – Alexa Bliss

‘Everyone remembers the winner; nobody remembers who finishes second. But quite a lot, I seem to be right around the hunt with nine holes to play.’ – Brooks Koepka

‘I’m only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.’ – Jude Law

‘I’m a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I’m a terrible loser.’ – Coolio

‘I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.’ – Joe Torre

‘I’m going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner’s list.’ – Lee Trevino

‘Rajkumar was the winner of ‘Naalaya Iyakkunar Season 2,’ and I was impressed with his short film. He joined me as an assistant when I started the pre-production work for ‘Vada Chennai.’ – Vetrimaaran’ – Vetrimaaran

‘I ain’t nothing but a winner.’ – Bear Bryant

‘People have built me up to be untouchable, unbeatable, invincible, and I’m not that. I am a man, and I am a winner, but that can change in a second.’ – Anthony Joshua

‘I think every artist wants to have that ‘Grammy award winner’ tag in front of their name.’ – Jason Aldean

‘Being a World Cup winner was a dream come true.’ – Ali Krieger

‘Once you’re a NASCAR champion, you’re kind of in another elite division instead of just being a competitor or a race winner.’ – Kyle Busch

‘The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls.’ – Ali Khamenei

‘I was determined my 4,000th winner would be in the green and gold colours of J. P. McManus and trained by Jonjo O’Neill, who have been my greatest supporters.’ – Tony McCoy

‘Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don’t accept that if you don’t get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There’s a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that’s not fair.’ – John Madden

‘If you can shrug off a loss, you can’t be a winner.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘I was only 30 years old, and the second Mr. Olympia was probably the most outright win in the history of the sport. It literally took the judges two minutes to see the winner, and then they concentrated on who is coming second.’ – Dorian Yates

‘I’m not that good a player, and I’ll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don’t know.’ – Patrick Rafter

‘That’s how I live my life, with belief. I am a winner.’ – Vitor Belfort

‘I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in ‘The Winner’ and a Latino character on ‘Hannah Montana.” – Michael Steger

‘Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.’ – K. L. Rahul

‘If its proven that there’s racial abuse, the team’s fans where there’s abuse should quit the game as a loss and the result should go to the winner basically.’ – Shaun Wright-Phillips

‘God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.’ – Joel Osteen

‘A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.’ – Early Wynn

‘If you’re the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I’m the long shot – the Lotto Powerball winner. I’m the mutation in the DNA that makes evolution a reality. I am the new black.’ – Tracy Morgan

‘My message is that there is no secret in life at all. All you must do is fight, fight, fight and be consistent and in the end you will be a winner.’ – Seve Ballesteros

‘To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year – but for a lifetime.’ – Bill Rodgers

‘It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.’ – George Foreman

‘Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.’ – Donald Trump

‘Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.’ – Simon Cowell

‘During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.’ – Jeane Dixon

‘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.’ – Richard Stallman

‘We have had more sales for this year’s grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.’ – Jackie Stewart

‘People aren’t quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They’re not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.’ – Kazuo Ishiguro

‘I’m known as a winner now.’ – Brett Hull

‘Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn’t need to be explained to everyday Americans.’ – Frank Luntz

‘When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn’t really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing – the first hit record that came out was ‘Everybody Loves a Winner.” – William Bell

‘There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.’ – Richard V. Allen

‘If the entire team can feel the same way about these things, you can consistently remain a winner.’ – Jim Otto

‘I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.’ – Kenneth Blackwell

‘When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.’ – Bashar al-Assad

‘It’s not life or death it’s a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.’ – Bernhard Langer

‘I do want to go out on top, as a winner.’ – Art Modell

‘People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.’ – Nancy Kerrigan

‘Even if you never do anything about this, you’ve benefited from an unjust system. You’re already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.’ – Jonathan Kozol

‘You want to come home from a tournament with a winner’s medal. That’s not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that’s the pressure we put ourselves under.’ – Rio Ferdinand

‘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.’ – James MacArthur

‘To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons… that’s the greatest thing.’ – Marcus Allen

‘In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.’ – Bobby Rahal

‘You have a winner and a loser and that doesn’t bother me, I am man enough to accept that.’ – Michael Moorer

‘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.’ – Jonathan Dimbleby

‘First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn’t the winner, tennis was. That’s awesome. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt so good here before.’ – Andre Agassi

‘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

‘The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.’ – Barbara Bush

‘Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain’t going to accept nothing but a winner.’ – Ice Cube

‘The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It’s perfect.’ – Dick Morris

‘Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.’ – George Soros

‘All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I’m very proud to be the first winner here in India.’ – Sebastian Vettel

‘I’m very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn’t know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.’ – Sebastian Vettel

‘I’m at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.’ – Chili Davis

‘New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.’ – Patrick Ewing

‘Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I’m supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.’ – Asafa Powell

‘I’m not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It’s not going to happen.’ – Patrick Rafter

‘To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I’ve got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she’s a lovely mare.’ – Michael Owen

‘My kids are one, three, five and eight, and we are all horsey. The kids have got their ponies and can ride. Our foundation mare is special to our hearts. She was one of my first ever horses. She was my first ever winner at Chester, which is also special, and she’s just the apple of our eyes, really.’ – Michael Owen

‘When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner – and how that winner might be me.’ – Maria Sharapova

‘One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.’ – Tim Scott

‘After two undefeated seasons of ‘Worst Cooks in America,’ I’m ready for a third. Going against Bobby Flay takes the challenge to another level, but I’m ready to whip these contestants into shape and the winner is sure to be from Team Burrell.’ – Anne Burrell

‘I knew my destiny was to be in the winner’s circle. There were times along the way where I didn’t make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.’ – Venus Williams

‘The economic message is a winner whether you’re Greek, whether you’re a woman, whether you’re Hispanic it doesn’t matter. The economic message is a winner and the fact that Obama didn’t fulfill his promises is a killer for him.’ – Reince Priebus

‘My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you’re on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities – a ‘we’re all in it together’ society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.’ – William J. Clinton

‘The truth is, you win the Lotto. That’s really how you have to approach it. You’re a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.’ – Craig Ferguson

‘You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.’ – Evel Knievel

‘That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.’ – John Madden

‘I’ve played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn’t easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I’m the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.’ – Lydia Ko

‘I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let’s just say that.’ – Henrique Capriles Radonski

‘There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait.’ – Henrique Capriles Radonski

‘There is no winner or loser – just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.’ – Jean-Francois Cope

‘When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.’ – Angie Stone

‘I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.’ – George Weah

‘Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to ‘Top Chef’ although they’re not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There’s just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don’t win, they’re all talented.’ – Tom Colicchio

‘I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it’s the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.’ – Sloane Crosley

‘Nothing would make me happier than to train the next winner on ‘The Biggest Loser’ because it means the world to me. Everybody has a fighter inside them, they just don’t realize it.’ – Cara Castronuova

‘The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.’ – Vicente Fox

‘Just because you’re a star on television doesn’t mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it’s all about hit songs. I can name you every ‘Idol’ winner and why they didn’t go on to have success – their songs. The ones who have – their songs.’ – Kara DioGuardi

‘Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.’ – Bradley A. Smith

‘I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world’s best athletes.’ – Daley Thompson

‘I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.’ – Amelie Nothomb

‘In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?’ – Jeff Greenfield

‘In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.’ – Marcus Buckingham

‘It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.’ – George Matthew Adams

‘I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don’t think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris – or Bangkok?’ – John Burdett

‘Someone once told me I’m a sore winner, and they’re right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I’m moving on and looking for the next challenge.’ – Eli Broad

‘Ladies love a soppy lyric. There’s a real winner in ‘Carry You Home.” – James Blunt

‘Washington – having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently – is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody’s ox is getting gored.’ – Eric Schmidt

‘Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn’t something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.’ – Jackson Katz

‘When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person’s most recent failure.’ – Niecy Nash

‘My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in ’63 and ’69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things.’ – Chris Hardwick

‘I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once ‘The Great Indian Laughter Challenge’ was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.’ – Kapil Sharma

‘I saw an Emmy ad that AMC took out with all the ‘Breaking Bad’ nominees’ photos, and there’s my picture from the show. It’s like World’s Ugliest Man – I’m an automatic winner in that category.’ – Mark Margolis

‘Having ‘Oscar winner’ on your tombstone is a great thing.’ – George Clooney

‘If you’re healthy, if you don’t get sick much, if you don’t go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It’s just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘I don’t think it’s fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say ‘Show us you’re a winner right now!’ Winning isn’t everything. I’ll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he’s a loser in life.’ – Joe Paterno

‘I’m a bad loser, but I’m not a good winner either – I like to rub it in people’s faces!’ – Caroline Winberg

‘They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I’d be a 300-game winner.’ – Tommy Lasorda

‘Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the ‘Human Stain.’ I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for ‘Kramer vs Kramer.” – Wentworth Miller

‘For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, ‘Academy Award winner so-and-so.” – Robert Osborne

‘My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.’ – Tony McCoy

‘I’ve appreciated every winner. I love them all.’ – Tony McCoy

‘It’s nice to be in first place. But just because you’re not on a winner doesn’t mean you’re a loser.’ – Joe Torre

‘Obviously, many people may remember me as the first winner of ‘The Apprentice,’ but prior to that, I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college, and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on.’ – Bill Rancic

‘I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that’s what gets people to buy in to your brand – being a winner.’ – Chris Paul

‘If you do something really well, the entire world beats a path to your door. The number three, number five, number 400 player gets nothing. It’s almost a winner take all.’ – Lloyd Blankfein

‘Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.’ – Robert D. Hare

‘I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.’ – Summer Sanders

‘Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I’ve ever seen.’ – Dan Jenkins

‘Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest last round by the winner of any major since 1938, when Reg Whitcombe won the British Open with a 78 in a storm that blew down the exhibition tent at Sandwich.’ – Dan Jenkins

‘It wasn’t the first reality show, but ‘Survivor’ was the first big network hit, and I’m proud to have played a part in that history as the winner of season six, ‘Survivor: Amazon.” – Jenna Morasca

‘I’ve always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern – I could always pick a winner.’ – Rob Lowe

‘I’ve had opportunities. But winning a major is not only about playing well. It’s about having ‘winner’s luck.’ I had winner’s luck in 1999 at Medinah, but it didn’t take me all the way.’ – Sergio Garcia

‘Quail Hollow is always going to be a special spot for me, and winning there gave me a little more credibility. But I want to be a multiple winner on the PGA Tour.’ – Rickie Fowler

‘Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.’ – Daniel Snyder

‘You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody’s lunch.’ – Jeb Bush

‘It feels great to be a two-time Six Nations winner.’ – Brian O’Driscoll

‘It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor.’ – Mitch Kapor

‘People like to work for a winner.’ – Steven Burd

‘Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.’ – Richard Flanagan

‘The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call ‘signaling.” – Ben Bernanke

‘After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.’ – Joyce Banda

‘I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I’m a winner. And if they don’t, I’ll open a bookstore.’ – Warren Spector

‘Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let’s not talk about that.’ – Rabih Alameddine

‘I love watching the Oscars and seeing everybody saying all that ‘it’s an honour just to be nominated’ rubbish. Then you see their faces when the split screen comes up as the winner is announced – the losers are all smiling through gritted teeth and looking as if they just swallowed half a pound of soor plooms.’ – John Niven

‘America is a powerful country. America is a great country. We have enormous resiliency. Any time we have had our back to the wall, we have come out a winner.’ – Kenneth Langone

‘I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.’ – Clive Granger

‘I’ve got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.’ – Lamar Odom

‘Sixteen times a year, all thirty-two NFL teams give us what we’re looking for: speed, skill, violence, fantasy league orgasms and a final score. No confusion. No doubt. No indecision. A winner and a loser.’ – Mike Barnicle

‘The unknown winner of an unknown city, located in an unknown country, is Man.’ – Dominique Pire

‘That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘I didn’t like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘When I did win the Tour, I felt I was feted more in the U.K. for being an Olympic gold medallist… Then I come back to Europe to race, and they’re not interested in the Olympic gold; it’s about being the winner of the Tour de France – here he is.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are – the best thing of it is that when I say some of my ideas, somebody’s going to listen to it, and they’ll preface what I say, ‘Academy Award winner da-da-da-da-da.” – Haskell Wexler

‘If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?’ – Bhumibol Adulyadej

‘I can compete with anybody. I’m a true competitor. I’m a winner.’ – Stefon Diggs

‘Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.’ – Edgardo Osorio

‘Nothing creates a winner quite like earning it, not just inheriting it.’ – Kellyanne Conway

‘If I were to ask you who the first million-pound show winner was on British TV, you’d probably go for Judith Keppel. She was, indeed, the first ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ contestant to win ¬£1 million, but the first one on TV was actually Clare Barwick, who won ¬£1 million on Chris Evans’ show ‘TFI Friday.” – Jasper Carrott

‘When the venture capital industry invests, it’s usually because they sense there is money in them hills. And often it takes a high-profile winner to wake everyone up in the category. SpaceX is that company.’ – Steve Jurvetson

‘Trump-Pence is a winner for the GOP.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘I’ve spent 34 years associated with the Cubs, and part of the reason I’ve stayed in baseball is because I want to be part of a World Series winner.’ – Ryne Sandberg

‘I think taking care of yourself, health-wise, in every way, is a 100 percent winner.’ – Elaine Stritch

‘What’s the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?’ – Aileen Lee

‘Night after night in the ’50s, I traveled all over New York City. The promoter had 10 acts, and the winner each night would get five dollars; second place would get three dollars, and third place would get two dollars. He always put the best acts on last so the people wouldn’t walk out, and the worst acts went on first. He always put me on first.’ – Tiny Tim

‘That is what made America great: that everyone had the opportunity to be a winner. And I think it’s still there. I’m certainly a beneficiary of it.’ – James P. Gorman

”Winner’ is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn’t hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.’ – Rakul Preet Singh

‘I promise that no one wants to deliver a winner to Fulham supporters more than I do.’ – Shahid Khan

‘Given the weight of an Oscar statuette, one made out of solid gold would be worth $219,000. That twinkle in a winner’s eye would be more than just a realization that he or she is a decent actor; it would be the joy of holding a chunk of metal worth a new Lamborghini.’ – Kyle Hill

‘Ain’t nobody ever had a jumpshot like mine, ain’t nobody ever power moves like mine, ain’t nobody ever tough defense like mine and ain’t nobody ever had the courage to be a winner like me.’ – Moses Malone

‘Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn’t, he loses that authority.’ – Jack Ramsay

‘I want to say sorry for abusing my position as an ‘X Factor’ winner because I owe everything to this thing.’ – James Arthur

‘Not only was I an ‘X Factor’ winner that got dropped by Syco – and when that happens, you’re never heard of again – but everyone thought I was a clown.’ – James Arthur

‘Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won.’ – Paul Craig Roberts

‘The only thing I focus on is just winning. Once we win, everyone remembers a winner. That’s what I’m focused on.’ – Kristaps Porzingis

‘I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I’m so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.’ – George A. Romero

‘The dollar is a winner. The euro is a tie. Get off the dime, Europe, and play to win.’ – Frank Deford

‘I don’t see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.’ – Richard Linklater

‘Alex Smith is – I think he is a winner, and he’s a smart quarterback, and I’m a fan of his.’ – Paul Rudd

‘Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you’ll hit a real winner.’ – E. Joseph Cossman

‘To be a winner, you’ve got to be an appraiser. You’ve got to be able to play at your best under pressure. And more money creates more pressure. Money is the finest fuel in the world.’ – Bobby Riggs

‘To be called a Cy Young award winner is something I could have never imagined ever happening to me. I’m just always amazed at the blessings that came my way over the years.’ – Jake Peavy

‘Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.’ – Om Malik

‘I decided I’d try my hand as a stand-up comedian, as I loved making people laugh, and appeared at the Latitude Festival, won the 2007 Laughing Horse New Act of the Year, and was a nominee for winner of the 2007 So You Think You’re Funny competition.’ – Daniel Rigby

‘Winning feels great, and everybody loves a winner. But the very best figure out what’s coming next and don’t assume they’ve got the winning formula forever.’ – Kristen Soltis Anderson

”I Can Do That’ has been the most challenging show of my life, and the result has been overwhelming. It is good to know I will be in the history as the first winner of the season of the show.’ – Rithvik Dhanjani

‘I grew up thinking you’re either a winner in the world, or you’re not. I presumed I was not. I had no reason to think I would be, and my inclination is towards self-deprecation. I wish I’d known no one was judging my every move, but I’m still like this!’ – Jennifer Egan

‘At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn’t have been made based on the fact that they had that stamp of approval of an Academy Award winner. And the good news is I got to learn the real process of filmmaking – directing, storyboarding, writing.’ – Cuba Gooding, Jr.

‘In the international contest of ideologies, it is not assured that ours will win; we have to earn the winner’s laurel generation by generation. One way we earn it is by living our values as the world watches.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘If everybody’s a winner, nobody has to try very hard.’ – Paul Dini

‘The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.’ – Karl Iagnemma

”Switched at Birth’ has an amazing cast, including an Oscar winner and two Emmy nominees. The writing is very innovative, and the show’s producers have redefined U.S. TV by launching a mainstream show which includes multiple deaf cast members whose characters communicate only in ASL (American Sign Language).’ – Rachel Shenton

‘Crossroads fights are an important part of boxing. The winner goes on to bigger and better things, while the loser squanders a significant career opportunity.’ – Thomas Hauser

‘Don’t get me wrong: ‘America’s Next Top Model’ is fantastic. They’ve done 20 seasons, so they’ve obviously done something right. But I think what ensures that the winner of ‘The Face’ will become a working model is the prize – a year-long contract with a cosmetics company is huge.’ – Coco Rocha

‘A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they’re currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.’ – Michelle Dean

‘Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.’ – Lisa Jewell

‘There’s a competitive grief atmosphere in acting classes. Like, whoever has the biggest trauma is sort of like the winner of the day today or gets the A+. That, I could identify with from when I sort of dabbled with method acting classes when I was a teenager.’ – Sarah Goldberg

‘When they don’t have your back on a show, it’s the worst feeling ever. That energy trickles down to the cast and crew. You can feel when it’s not gonna be a winner. But when you have the support of the network and the studio, it’s a really good feeling.’ – Jamie Chung

‘If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.’ – Elizabeth Berg

‘When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why – to produce a photo-op that would clearly show America would be the winner in the decades-long battle of political systems called the Cold War.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘During times of plenty – when venture funding is abundant and startups multiply like rabbits – every business looks like a winner.’ – Neil Blumenthal

‘You get a world-class athlete like Hershel Walker, who was a Heisman trophy winner and did some amazing things, but he had a martial arts background. He did kickboxing. He had a combat sports background. It was just rekindling that training and that martial arts workout ethic. He got back into it and did quite well.’ – Scott Coker

‘As an artist development platform, we’ve proven that all the work done behind the scenes at American Idol, along with surviving the rigors of the intense live shows, can properly prepare a winner for a real-world music career opportunity.’ – Scott Borchetta

‘Now I can always be called ‘Emmy winner Regina King.’ I think that in this business, it must mean something. Every time someone has won an award, and they’re announcing them or speaking about them, that prefaces their name.’ – Regina King

‘People are always surprised to find this out, but the songs that we write, such as ‘Winner of a Losing Game’ and things like that, tend to be more country than the other stuff that we cut from outside writers.’ – Jay DeMarcus

‘I never thought America would be stupid enough to put this idiot in the White House. Up until a half hour before they declared Trump the winner, I still thought that it wouldn’t happen. I never thought that we, as a nation, had fallen so much that we would be foolish enough to do that.’ – Ron Stallworth

‘My stats don’t even need to be said, but I’ll say them anyway. I’m a 14-time champion. I’m a two-time Slammy award winner. I’ve done movies. I host my own show. How much more do you want in an athlete, in a star, than The Miz?’ – The Miz

‘I am a winner, and I always look to win.’ – The Miz

‘I love it when people refer to me as a singer-songwriter. I get flutters in my stomach because they say, ‘This is Grace VanderWaal, singer-songwriter,’ not, ‘This is Grace VanderWaal, winner of ‘America’s Got Talent.” I’m so proud of that; it’s such a big chapter of my life. But it’s nice to kind of not be known as just that.’ – Grace VanderWaal

‘Stephen Thompson is an incredible fighter, and I couldn’t quite figure him out the way I wanted to, but here I am, the winner.’ – Darren Till

‘Mourinho’s a great coach. He is ambitious and a winner.’ – Radamel Falcao

‘Talk about Jose Mourinho, and you’re talking about a winner.’ – David de Gea

‘In boxing and politics, you cannot predict results. You should be ready to go 12 rounds. But if you win in the first round, you should be ready to be the winner quickly.’ – Vitali Klitschko

‘Of course I’m a winner. I always want to win.’ – Ashley Cole

‘For a while, all the studios had their art-house divisions, but that went by the by pretty quickly. Now, they’re really focusing on these huge blockbusters, spending a fortune on cartoon pictures and comic-strip movies and superhero movies, and they aren’t making pictures like ‘How Green Was My Valley,’ which was an Oscar winner in its day.’ – Peter Bogdanovich

‘I never faked my emotions or my desire to be a winner.’ – Roddy Piper

‘My whole career except for the NBA, I’ve been a winner. I want to get back to that.’ – Devin Booker

‘I know I’m a winner.’ – Rajon Rondo

‘I know some people expected me to be a Ballon d’Or winner.’ – Robinho

‘Life is good, and I’m happy, and I don’t know that it would be as good if I’d been the winner in Calgary.’ – Eddie the Eagle

‘I like to be the winner; I like to change. I like to make history.’ – Samir Nasri

‘I heard Tony Bellew is looking for a fight with the winner of the Muhammad Ali Trophy. I hope he will see me.’ – Oleksandr Usyk

‘If the first entrant always wins the market, the Dreamcast must have won the race against the PS2, for example. There are many precedents like that in the past. The first to market is not necessarily the winner in the race.’ – Satoru Iwata

‘Why Galatasaray and not Liverpool? Because I am a winner – I play for prizes – so I went to Galatasaray because I thought that I would win more at Galatasaray and be champion than at Liverpool, and I think afterwards that I made the right choice.’ – Wesley Sneijder

‘I wish to thank all fans who support me, but the others should be ashamed because I am a born winner and always played my heart out for the national team.’ – Edin Dzeko

‘To win the FA Cup – scoring the winner in the 2014 FA Cup was very nice.’ – Aaron Ramsey

‘I’ve always got a desire to win – I believe I’m a winner.’ – Naby Keita

‘I know the world is mean, that there is so much suffering on the planet that none of us can imagine. I often think of those who have nothing, who have to suffer every day, so a winner, a game, set, match will never give me immense joy, only satisfaction.’ – Karolina Pliskova

‘When I meditate, I visualize myself after the match as the winner.’ – Bianca Andreescu

‘Anything like having a good season at home for the club, or going as far as you can and having a great Champions League, has its repercussions when it comes to the Balon D’Or winner.’ – Jesus Navas

‘I’ve always said that it’s like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets – getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts. There are no guarantees, and no one knows where a show is going to go.’ – Rick Hoffman

‘I’ve been winning my whole life. I’ve been blessed to be a winner.’ – Kenny Smith

‘I am a winner – and I like to win – but I cannot think that, if I lose, I did not do a good job, because there are other external factors involved.’ – Clarence Seedorf

‘Cavani has been a historical figure for PSG. He’s scored so many goals. He’s a winner; he’s a leader. He’s very much respected in France as a player but also as a man because of his values.’ – Hugo Lloris

‘I was lucky to see Di Stefano, on the pitch, in person. He was a winner, as is Raul.’ – Rafael Benitez

‘I’m a winner. I’ve always been a winner.’ – Jahlil Okafor

‘When you become a pageant winner, you become a known face. So, winning a pageant helps us in making inroads into the industry.’ – Urvashi Rautela

‘I think, in general, the sport’s frustrating because I think it’s one of only a few sports in the world where you’ve got so many other variables. Not taking anything away from the winner, but the best man doesn’t always win. I think part of that makes the sport really exciting, and part of it makes it heartbreaking.’ – Daniel Ricciardo

‘I’m a born winner.’ – Ashley Young

‘I don’t have many dreams to fulfil because I’ve won almost everything, but I was born a winner and want to achieve things with Olympiakos.’ – Rivaldo

‘You always have competition and great players who can play. The winner in that case is Paris Saint-Germain. With great players, even if a player is unavailable, another can come in and make the difference.’ – Lucas Moura

‘Wins and championships – I want it all. I want there to be no doubt who I am. I want there to be no doubt that I’m a winner.’ – Johnny Gargano

‘When you bring a winner onto your team, he knows how to win, he’s going to help your team win, and that’s the goal at the end of the day.’ – Malcolm Brogdon

‘Wherever you disrupt water from its natural cycle, there’s always a winner and a loser. Whoever is the one it’s directed towards is the winner, and whoever loses that water is the loser.’ – Edward Burtynsky

‘I’ve always wanted to be a winner, the best player, the one that everyone is talking about. I’m greedy in that sense.’ – James Maddison

‘Messi is a winner.’ – Gabriel Batistuta

‘Although I have never won a major trophy, I consider myself a winner because I helped Fiorentina to compete with the big boys.’ – Gabriel Batistuta

‘Muller is a winner for Germany and expects to score big goals in big games, especially with his late runs from behind the striker.’ – Lothar Matthaus

‘My favorite point guard, growing up, was Magic Johnson. The reason why I say that is he was a winner, and he did everything in his power to make his teammates better. That’s what the game is all about as a point guard.’ – Stephon Marbury

‘I feel confident that no player can step on court against me and feel confident that they will come out the winner. Every match I take part in, I have an equal shot of coming through as the winner.’ – Johanna Konta

‘No player can step on court against me and feel confident that they will come out the winner.’ – Johanna Konta

‘Tuchel became runner-up, cup winner, and played attractive football. I enjoyed watching his BVB. That’s why I appreciate him and consider him a very good coach.’ – Jupp Heynckes

‘It’s very important for the mentality of the players to always try to be a winner, to try to win as many titles and games as you can.’ – Manuel Pellegrini

‘Free agents want to go to a winner and get paid.’ – James L. Dolan

‘Let’s not make out as though I will be the winner. I won’t be. Putin will run and he will win.’ – Ksenia Sobchak

‘I’ve played regularly in a big club at Benfica, where it is not easy and there is a lot of pressure. In those years I learned to be a winner and play under that pressure.’ – Nemanja Matic

‘I’m hungry. I don’t like losing. I see myself as a winner.’ – Fabian Delph

‘My aim is to be a winner.’ – Ross Barkley

‘Mourinho is a winner and will remain a winner.’ – Ander Herrera

‘I felt like Cleveland deserved a winner. They have the most loyal fans in the world. I just thought it was a goal of mine. Every time that job came open I tried to get it.’ – Bruce Arians

‘You score the winner against a tough opponent and you still get heaped on.’ – Mario Gomez

‘Of course it’s a nice challenge to compete against a grand prix winner.’ – Nico Hulkenberg

‘I’m a winner, and that’s all I believe in.’ – Jarvis Landry

‘When you walk around Cleveland, the fans are starving for a winner and a successful team, and you saw how upset they were when LeBron left. You just want to win it for them.’ – Peyton Hillis

‘It’d be really neat if I wasn’t a Darwin Award winner.’ – Simone Giertz

‘I’m definitely happy that I’m part of the Oklahoma City team, a winner team, so I think it’s going to go really well in the future.’ – Enes Kanter

‘The whole thing about F1 that the bad boy is the winner is wrong.’ – Rubens Barrichello

‘Marie Curie is in a class all her own as the first female winner and still the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different science categories. An astounding scientist.’ – Donna Strickland

‘Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.’ – Paul DePodesta

‘Football’s about winning and I’m a winner, but you also have to set standards and entertain people.’ – Chris Kamara

‘One of the reasons I wear No. 2 is because of him. Yeah, he was ultimate team guy. He was a winner. And just a good guy for a kid to look up to. And I always pretended to be Jeter.’ – Alex Bregman

‘To the Heisman voters, I’m truly honored and humbled to be the 2016 Heisman Trophy winner.’ – Lamar Jackson

‘I’m an Ultimate Fighter winner at 170. At 155, I’m always proving myself. I have nothing to prove to any of the fans, but to myself, it’s my skillset.’ – Tony Ferguson

‘I want to be a winner. But you can see Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Wayne Gretzky – that kind of people – where you can see and say yeah, this is players who win everything. I want to be in this page, too.’ – Alexander Ovechkin

‘In everything we do there’s a winner and a loser.’ – Urban Meyer

‘I’m not a winner. My nature is not the nature of a winner.’ – Peter Handke

‘I look like a winner, I smell like a winner, so why not put it on the big screen?’ – Jake Hager

‘I am a winner, man.’ – Ravi Shastri

‘On ‘Love Island’ you’re trying to win the prize money and stay together; on ‘The Bi Life,’ the winner is the one that finds love.’ – Courtney Act

‘It’s very special to be the first winner in New Zealand. Phil Taylor has always said to me about trying to be the first player to win when we go to a new country and I’m over the moon to do that in Auckland.’ – Adrian Lewis

‘I’ve trained my whole life to be a winner and if I know two things it’s that to be the best takes passion and persistence.’ – Jay-Jay Okocha

‘The thing with the comedian is you can make all the jokes you want and not every joke it going to be a winner, and not every joke is going to land, there’ll be some that somebody doesn’t laugh at, but that’s just part of the deal.’ – Bianca Del Rio

‘Everybody said that a film that funny can’t win because normally your Cannes winner will be something more serious. It’s not very often that a film that’s bordering on comedy has won in Cannes.’ – Claes Bang

‘There’s an easy way to tell who won a fight, whether it occurs in a ring or in a schoolyard. Watch it with a second-grade boy and ask him the winner. He’ll always know. If he doesn’t know, the fight wasn’t worth watching.’ – Tom Junod

‘In many households today, the woman is also a bread winner and with this financial independence comes the power of making choices.’ – Rahul Dev

‘People have been saying life will change for us now but me? No chance. I may be a World Cup winner but I will always be the lad who played cricket with his friends and cousins in the park on Stoney Lane in south Birmingham using an old milk crate for stumps.’ – Moeen Ali

‘I see myself as a winner. I’m not one of those guys who say, ‘Let’s come back next year and maybe give it a better shot.’ The shot is now.’ – Shawn Kemp

‘Race to Dubai winner, playing in Ryder Cups, winning majors – these are all great parts of a career you want to have.’ – Tommy Fleetwood

‘For me, working with kids is one of my favorite ways to give back, and I refuse to let public opinion about whether I’m a ‘winner’ stop me from being a positive role model and mentor.’ – Paige Spiranac

‘Sadio is a match winner.’ – Adam Lallana

‘The film ‘Harjeeta’ is based on the remarkable true story of a underdog, who overcomes his circumstances, fights against all odds and at end, comes out as a winner.’ – Ammy Virk

‘Playing with a winner is important.’ – Robert Parish

‘New York fans want a winner. They strive for a winner.’ – Larry Johnson

‘I’m a winner. I love to build. I’ve got great ideas. I’ve got the passion. I’m very diligent, and if given a chance I’ll work my rear end off to be a success.’ – Sol Campbell

‘I think that’s probably the number one reason why collaboration is good. You disagree with each other about things and then what we always say is whichever one of us is more passionate about the issue is the winner because if you care about something enough to fight for it, that means it’s probably a good thing.’ – Finneas

‘People loved me on ‘X Factor’ when I did ‘Chandelier’ and ‘Winner Takes It All’ and all these big numbers.’ – Saara Aalto

‘I’m a Clevelander. I’ve spent the majority of my adult life here. Every day when I come to work, it’s ‘Let’s turn this team into a consistent winner.’ Because it would be such a special story.’ – Joe Thomas

‘I love Cleveland. I really do. I love the Browns, I love being a part of this organization, and it’s been kind of my career’s mission to help turn this team around into a consistent winner.’ – Joe Thomas

‘As much as progressives hate the Electoral College – and we can argue its flaws all day long – in 2020, the Electoral College is the only game in town. There’s not going to be some miracle where it’s not the rule book. The winner of the Electoral College is president. Doesn’t matter how many popular votes you get.’ – Rick Wilson

‘The tag of a ‘National Award winner’ earned me a lot of respect from a lot of people. I like that in a way.’ – Priyamani

‘If I only had one day left in my life and it was riding a race or owning the Gold Cup winner, I’d ride a race.’ – Dido Harding

‘I never focus on anyone else that I can’t control. I’m at Rangers and want to contribute. There can only be one winner but, of course, I want to see Rangers’ journey to the end.’ – Kemar Roofe

‘I’m a winner.’ – Carl Froch

‘Ronnie is a very clever winner. He will make sure that he does everything in his power to win the tournament. He is super-fit.’ – Jimmy White

‘You don’t have to be a mathematician to work out that Rory McIlroy is going to have more chances at 25 than I am at 38. The clock is ticking. It would be nicer to be a multiple-major winner than a major winner. But it would be nice to be a major winner, at the minute!’ – Ian Poulter

‘I don’t think punching lockers is the way forward for anyone. There’s only going to be one winner there.’ – Ben Stokes

‘I want to leave Juventus as a winner.’ – David Trezeguet

‘Dwyane is just sensational. Look, he has all the qualities of a champion, of a winner, of a Hall of Fame player and talent, but his humanity, empathy and his ability to articulate his feelings separates him from everybody else.’ – Erik Spoelstra

‘We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not to make mistakes, and we’d rely on our defense to keep us in the game and make big plays to put us in position to win. Kyle Orton might not be the flashiest quarterback, but the guy is a winner, and that formula worked for us.’ – Brian Urlacher

‘That’s how I judge a winner – how somebody manages their family and raises their family.’ – Brian France

‘I really enjoy the opportunity to face another Ultimate Fighter winner because it doesn’t come around that often.’ – Michael Chiesa

‘I finish every fight. And if I don’t finish and go to a decision, I win 10-8 rounds. How many guys do you know in the lightweight division who’ve had fights where they have gotten two 10-8 rounds scored? Think about it. I’m a winner.’ – Michael Chiesa

‘I’m a winner. I focus on the games and that’s all that matters to me.’ – Thon Maker

‘I’m a winner. I’m not about the accolades. I’m here to win.’ – Marcus Smart

‘In this life, you have three kinds of persons the winners, the losers, and the third ones, they’re the ones who don’t even know why they’re born. I’m a winner.’ – Demis Roussos

‘Zizou has been a leader wherever he has played. He was the captain of France, a World Cup winner and been a winner in all the clubs he played for. So he has enough experience to handle and manage a group. More importantly, he is a man who everyone respects.’ – Roberto Carlos

‘I believe that I’m a winner. I’ve won pretty much my whole life.’ – Michael Carter-Williams

‘If it was true that I just cared about the money, then my whole attitude would be different. I want to win every game, and I want to go out a winner.’ – Rasheed Wallace

‘Jimmy Butler is a winner.’ – Tyler Herro

‘When you’re 1-1 against Manchester United and you’re trying to get the winner with five minutes to play, the fans play their part then and give you that little bit of adrenaline.’ – Steve Bruce

‘I’m honored and humbled to be named the Seasonlong NBA Community Assist Award winner.’ – Bradley Beal

‘You can be anything else, but if you’re the 100-yard dash winner, you’re the fastest guy, and that’s it.’ – Cris Collinsworth

‘When you lose a game of football, you can still be a winner by taking it on the chin and getting on with it.’ – Tony Pulis

‘After I signed pro forms in 1991, I went on to be chosen for a Paulista state championship select XI, then for Brazil at youth level, then for the full squad, and then finally I became a World Cup winner.’ – Cafu

‘Elections are zero-sum games. That means that there’s always one winner and a lot of losers. If you just get one more vote than the other person, you win that election.’ – Christopher Wylie

‘The ballet world is so competitive, and for no reason. It’s not a sport. It’s an art. There’s no winner.’ – Sergei Polunin

‘When I decided to direct a film, I went through around 200 to 300 scripts. Out of which, 12 subjects were finalized and ‘Aata Pata Laapta’ emerged as the winner.’ – Rajpal Yadav

‘I wouldn’t be able to compare ‘X Factor’ and ‘Indian Idol’ as I wasn’t a judge on the former. But there will never be another show like ‘Indian Idol’ as Indians connect with the struggle, pain and victory of a regular person on a show that allows them to choose the winner.’ – Anu Malik

‘Generally, though, becoming captain was never something I thought about. I’ve always pushed myself to be a leader and a winner through my performances, passion, ambition, will to win and unbending winning mentality.’ – Stephan Lichtsteiner

‘I’m a winner and I’ve had that instilled in me since I was a kid and sometimes it goes over the edge.’ – Jonjo Shelvey

‘A winner for me is someone who stands up for the right, is honest and can even go against their friends while pursuing truth.’ – Nikki Tamboli

‘You’ve got to know your role. I was never built like someone who was 6-9 or 6-10, didn’t have athleticism and became a good shooter. Wasn’t a natural shooter. So for me, it’s being smart. It’s a guy, I used to look at Shane Battier; take angles, play the right way, a winner. Do all the little things.’ – Jared Dudley

‘In my time, if your performance was good, you would get the award. It would be a nail-biting experience. We would always be curious whether our name would be announced as the winner.’ – Waheeda Rehman

‘I have a tremendous amount of gratitude to those who enjoyed my work. It’s something we did together, because I must have given them something they liked, and we shared it, and everybody walked away a winner. That’s truly the way I look at my time with the business.’ – Gene Okerlund

‘There is always going to be a Super Bowl winner, a league MVP, a Super Bowl MVP, great defenses and offenses. But I think to be part of real change – you talk about athletes like Muhammad Ali or Bill Russell – when you are able to do things that truly affect not just the game, but people everywhere, you find true meaning.’ – Devin McCourty

‘I’m a winner.’ – Jalen Ramsey

‘The first investment he made, he like made literally a 50x-plus. I mean that’s Kobe. He was a winner in absolutely everything he did.’ – Michael G. Rubin

‘I knew I couldn’t be a Heisman Trophy winner, but I could be the best I can be.’ – Rudy Ruettiger

‘I’ve worked with a lot of ‘American Idols’ over there and I’ve worked with the ‘German Idol’ winner and had songs on ‘Australian Idol.’ It’s a place for songs. ‘The X Factor’ U.K. is the holy grail.’ – Chesney Hawkes

‘If you think back to the days of Phil Anderson, when there were very few Australians to now when you have a Tour de France winner in Cadel Evans, a professional team in GreenEDGE, and classics winners in Stuart O’Grady and Matt Goss – the sport is bigger and bigger in Australia.’ – Eddy Merckx

‘Karaoke World Championship is a great attempt to motivate new talent in the field of singing. The event was outstanding where I discovered amazing talent that exists in our country. It was a tough time for me and the other judges to figure out one winner as everyone participating in it was mindboggling.’ – Sonu Kakkar

‘But feminism isn’t served by simply promoting women over men. The winner needs to be the best candidate for the job, not the best candidate of a certain gender.’ – Susanna Reid

‘If you see yourself as a winner, you’re going to be a winner, you’re going to make sure you become a winner. If you see yourself as fearless, you’ll be fearless. I think that goes far, not just in football but in everything.’ – Ivan Toney

‘When I feel comfortable in the car… I can do just about anything I need to do to be a race winner.’ – Denny Hamlin

‘It’s wonderful and reassuring to see ‘Hichki’ doing so well. When I got to know the subject and signed the film, I knew that we were working on an important and sensitive subject. I knew that we had a winner at hand. But as artists, we are always a little anxious about our work, that’s just in our DNA, I guess.’ – Rohit Saraf

‘I am all for a good drag out argument every now and then, but the person that talks the loudest and uses the most curse words is not necessarily the winner of the argument.’ – Cynthia Bailey

‘Michael Chiesa has written me off as many other men have written me off. As the Vegas oddsmakers have written me off, as the UFC has time and time again and time again written me off. As they have written me off to not be the Ultimate Fighter winner.’ – Diego Sanchez

‘Anything with pockets is a winner for me because I never know what to do with my hands when somebody takes a photo of me.’ – Stacey Solomon

‘They say I am ‘a winner in life,’ but I really am not. Life is never static. There are no such things as winners.’ – Zhao Wei

‘I think that Hardeep Singh Kohli is the winner of ‘MasterChef’ that never was.’ – Gregg Wallace

‘I want to play with a winner.’ – Ricky Rubio

‘Part of my job in the octagon is making sure the fighters are lined up with the referee so one of them gets their hand raised while I announce the winner.’ – Bruce Buffer

‘I want big games to prove to myself that I’m a winner and not a loser.’ – Danilo Gallinari

‘As a player, you want to win everything as much as you can. If you’re a footballer, you’re a winner. When you then step up to the first team and you win something with them, that feeling is multiplied massively because you’re at the top of the club and now you’re winning so you want it more and more.’ – Mason Mount

‘I am a winner so I don’t like watching other people win, especially other teams.’ – Mason Mount

‘When I was 10 years old, there was a competition on the CBBC page on Teletext to be on a game show called ‘Insides Out,’ and the winner would get a backstage pass to the BBC. And I won!’ – A. J. Odudu

‘I’m a winner, and that’s the main goal. If I do that, everything else will take care of itself.’ – Ja Morant

‘I remember watching the ACMs growing up. I would start on the couch and when the winner won the category, I had to walk up and stand by the TV and give my acceptance speech.’ – Jimmie Allen

‘In India, I didn’t have to struggle a lot since I was already a Miss India pageant winner. I could smoothly transition into films. In the U.S., I was stressed about earning money and getting good projects.’ – Pooja Batra

‘I’m happy that my journey of ‘Bigg Boss’ has ended. I would be happier if I was on the winning side, but there’s always only one winner. However, I always believe in winning with dignity and losing with grace.’ – Rahul Vaidya

‘I’m a winner, that’s what I do and I don’t like to lose.’ – Marlon Moraes

‘I have always felt like I am. Growing up and competing, I think I am a competitor and I think I’m a winner.’ – Daniel Jones

‘It makes sense to me that the winner between me and Frankie would face the winner of Aldo and Max. That’s what I’m looking for, of course.’ – Yair Rodriguez

‘Majors are difficult to win whether Tiger’s there or not, and it’s not like there will be an asterisk by the winner’s name in the history books. But I want to win a major when Tiger’s there.’ – Paul Casey

‘I want to be known as a winner, a guy that went out and did his job, was one-ninth of the equation to help us win every single day. I want to be a good husband, a good father, a good son.’ – Chipper Jones

‘The thing I can say about me is that no matter the age, you are either one type of person or not, you are either the winner or not. That’s not a matter of age, it’s a matter of, ‘Are you ready or not?” – Ruben Dias

‘Trust me, Black folks are tired of always having to save this country from itself and then being ignored once the winner of their vote is in office.’ – Jonathan Capehart

‘I’m a winner at heart, I hate to lose.’ – Leon Edwards

‘That’s kind of the stuff you dream about when you’re a kid playing in the backyard by yourself, is scoring the OT winner and getting a hat trick.’ – T. J. Oshie

‘I’m a winner, I have a strong character.’ – Victor Wanyama

‘I’m just so excited to bring Alabama their first Heisman winner.’ – Mark Ingram II

‘To be a winner, your point guard has to be able to shoot the ball.’ – De’Aaron Fox