Winners Quotes

‘Winners never quit and quitters never win.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.’ – Lou Holtz

‘Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.’ – Brian Tracy

‘Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.’ – Denis Waitley

‘You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.’ – Ted Turner

‘In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.’ – Neville Chamberlain

‘Self-discipline is what separates the winners and the losers.’ – Thomas Peterffy

‘In a competition, there’s always winners and losers. And I think everyone is here to win, which makes it fun for us all.’ – Antonio Brown

‘History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.’ – B. C. Forbes

‘There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.’ – Les Brown

‘In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that’s not?’ – Ken Liu

‘I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘Winners are just people who have gone through failure and have responded better than the rest.’ – Aaron Gordon

‘Winners do what losers don’t want to do.’ – Gary Busey

‘It feels awesome to be back in the winners’ circle.’ – Karch Kiraly

‘Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.’ – Joe Montana

‘History is not just written by the winners; it’s written about them.’ – Steve Rushin

‘Every fight is a must-win because we are winners.’ – Shawn Porter

‘To win the league, you don’t just need great players, but you need players who have the mentality of title winners.’ – Dimitar Berbatov

‘Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.’ – Richard Branson

‘We are all winners here.’ – Alfonso Ribeiro

‘Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.’ – Joe Gibbs

‘Winners don’t believe in fate like others do. They simply cannot accept defeat.’ – David Silva

‘I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.’ – Tom T. Hall

‘Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘As captain, I want us to be ambitious; I want us to be winners – but above all, I hope we will show how much we love the game by passing the ball and achieving success through our technical and tactical approach.’ – Steph Houghton

‘Without losers, where would the winners be?’ – Casey Stengel

‘Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘Winners are people with definite purpose in life.’ – Denis Waitley

‘People only talk about the winners, people talk about you if you win a trophy.’ – Wendie Renard

‘My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don’t have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don’t have children who are overweight.’ – Arabella Weir

‘I want winners. I want people who want to win.’ – Mike Singletary

‘Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.’ – Alex Rodriguez

‘Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.’ – Jerry Falwell

‘I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.’ – Alun Wyn Jones

‘Our style of play is non-negotiable, but we also have to become ruthless serial winners.’ – Phil Neville

‘So, I didn’t say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we’ve got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.’ – Steve Spurrier

‘I think it takes different types of winners to maintain a winning culture.’ – Maya Moore

‘There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.’ – Murray Walker

‘Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.’ – Denis Waitley

‘There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it in the way that directs the limited capital of the society to support the low-productivity parts of the economy, it means that the rest of the economy – our overall standard of living – will not rise as much as it could.’ – Alan Greenspan

‘We need to learn… how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war’s indefinite continuance.’ – Tony Judt

‘We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That’s what they’ve been doing the last year and a half, getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet.’ – Kristi Noem

”They’ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‘they.’ You might have a personal ‘they.’ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‘they.” – DJ Khaled

‘Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?’ – Eddie the Eagle

‘Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.’ – Frank Gifford

‘Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.’ – George Meredith

‘I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that’s not pro-growth economics. That’s not entrepreneurial economics. That’s not helping small businesses. That’s cronyism, that’s corporate welfare.’ – Paul Ryan

‘In Japan, after having lost World War II, the hierarchy that used to exist in the society, from the rich to the poor, has been flattened, especially by the winners, by Americans. As a Japanese artist debuting in America, I really had to bring that kind of theme into the work.’ – Takashi Murakami

‘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.’ – Denis Waitley

‘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’m lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.’ – Joan Baez

‘A lot of people hate winners.’ – Martellus Bennett

‘Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.’ – John le Carre

‘Mr. Trump’s and Mr. Osteen’s brands are rooted in success, not Scripture. Believers in prosperity like winners. Hurricanes and catastrophic floods do not provide the winning narratives crucial to keep adherents chained to prosperity gospel thinking. That is why it is easy for both men to issue platitudes devoid of empathy during natural disasters.’ – Anthea Butler

‘Winners are different. They’re a different breed of cat.’ – Byron Nelson

‘Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.’ – Tom Peters

‘In New York, they like winners. They don’t like second place.’ – Eli Manning

‘See, winners embrace hard work.’ – Lou Holtz

‘Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.’ – Denis Waitley

‘I’ve had three Eurovision winners: two with Johnny Logan and one with Linda Martin and even Jedward did great, because ‘Lipstick’ was a great song and they had a great show. It was a great visual.’ – Louis Walsh

‘Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.’ – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

‘People love winners.’ – Maverick Carter

‘Don’t worry that you can’t seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You’ll get better and better.’ – Steve Wozniak

‘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

‘Tiger Woods and Roger Federer: those two are born winners.’ – Peter Crouch

‘This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It’s authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.’ – Thomas Frank

‘I just don’t know why anyone would ever think that women’s football is a step down and that coaching World Cup champions, winners, players that have represented their countries in the Olympics or European championships is a step down from anything.’ – Emma Hayes

‘I think if you can find competitive people, they’ll make any environment that they go to winners.’ – Maya Moore

‘Number four, we’re going to play like winners, play the game the way it’s meant to be played. Don’t get full of yourself if something good happens. Don’t get too depressed when something bad happens.’ – Steve Spurrier

‘The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.’ – T. E. Lawrence

‘The Hunger Games’ is for eighth-grade girls! Winners read ‘The Art of War!” – Skip Bayless

‘Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they’re famous for.’ – Mary Lou Retton

‘Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.’ – Ahmed Ben Bella

‘I learnt that as soon as you have a negative thought, just push it to the back of your mind. The question is, when it’s you versus 11 others; can you be positive under pressure? That’s what defines winners.’ – Andrew Strauss

‘The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.’ – Denis Waitley

‘I won some winners’ medals with Lancashire – a NatWest trophy and a couple of Sunday Leagues.’ – Andrew Flintoff

‘When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.’ – Richard Carlson

‘I teach children to be winners.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Because of the Internet’s open platform, entrepreneurs have started small businesses, innovators have created online services, and webcasters have produced a diversity of news-information sources. We must make sure that winners and losers are decided by the marketplace and not your Internet service provider.’ – Jay Inslee

‘In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.’ – Mason Cooley

‘The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills – at putting on a great show. If we knew not only who the winners were but also by how much they won, the Oscar show could actually be the Super Bowl of movies.’ – Richard Corliss

‘And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can’t just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it’s much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.’ – Sam Donaldson

‘One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Only the winners decide what were war crimes.’ – Garry Wills

‘What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.’ – Donald Trump

‘Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Without winners, there wouldn’t even be any civilization.’ – Woody Hayes

‘Fox News is hated because they’re elitists, and the worst winners television’s ever seen.’ – Keith Olbermann

‘Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.’ – Damon Hill

‘We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.’ – Hayden Fry

‘I’ve done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.’ – Marcel Dionne

‘The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.’ – Arthur Godfrey

‘Global competition is about winners and losers.’ – David Korten

‘So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.’ – David Korten

‘When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn’t setting the terms of the competition.’ – Robert McChesney

‘When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it’s picking the winners in the competition.’ – Robert McChesney

‘At Euro ’92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.’ – Michel Patini

‘In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.’ – Jon Porter

‘Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn’t feature.’ – Phillip Noyce

‘As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.’ – Ralph Merkle

‘Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts – even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.’ – Lennart Nilsson

‘I think I pick more winners than losers.’ – Philip Green

‘Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn’t pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.’ – Sarah Palin

‘The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.’ – Herman Cain

‘We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.’ – Herman Cain

‘I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.’ – Tony Dungy

‘One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.’ – Rick Santelli

‘The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.’ – David Frum

‘Cameroon is stronger because it’s a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon’s players aren’t necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.’ – Roger Milla

‘Some Pulitzer winners – novelists – have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn’t been my experience.’ – Jeffrey Eugenides

‘Last I looked – and I’m not a candidate – but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It’s most states are winners take all.’ – Michael Bloomberg

‘Wars are expensive and dangerous. They’re not political winners.’ – Grover Norquist

‘Team GB’s success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester’s velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.’ – Lucy Powell

‘My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.’ – Goodluck Jonathan

‘Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it’s pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.’ – Steven Rattner

‘So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.’ – James Dyson

‘We’re becoming slaves to our social networks – and that’s not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.’ – Max Levchin

‘You’ve got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it’s antithetical to the American experience.’ – Jeb Hensarling

‘There’s some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society’s winners and who gets to be society’s losers that don’t have to do with merit.’ – Katherine Boo

‘Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.’ – Questlove

‘Look at ‘American Idol,’ which I don’t look at. Those winners haven’t become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can’t aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.’ – Andre Leon Talley

‘If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you’ll find a fair smattering of people who don’t know how to work a pipette.’ – Aubrey de Grey

‘If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and losers?’ – David Malpass

‘We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.’ – Bobby Jindal

‘Northwestern’s alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that’s just me!’ – Stephen Colbert

”Champagne’ and ‘breathmint’ are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.’ – Michael Moore

‘The name Minted speaks to the freshness of our design – the fact that we are receiving thousands of new designs each week and selling freshly minted winners from our design competitions.’ – Mariam Naficy

‘If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined ‘progress.” – David Harsanyi

‘The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.’ – Mike Pompeo

‘We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘If summer racing didn’t exist, I could go on holiday, yes, because nobody else would then be riding winners; but as long it goes ahead, I’ll do it for the reason that I want to ride more winners than anyone else.’ – Tony McCoy

‘If you’ve got a regular feed of winners, you control your mind to do it. It becomes a must. If you didn’t have that regular flow of winning, whether you could get yourself to do that, I don’t know. It’s a lot easier when you know the next day you can win and you can win and win, it’s worth doing it.’ – Tony McCoy

‘The National is about however long it takes to run that race – eight minutes of fame – but champion jockey is about racing 365 days a year. I actually wouldn’t swap any of my winners for the National.’ – Tony McCoy

‘Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey – flat or jumps – there’s ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement.’ – Tony McCoy

‘No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can ride.’ – Tony McCoy

‘I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners.’ – Tony McCoy

‘I could never have ridden 4,000 winners without loving my job, and If I ever get to the point where I’m not loving it, I’ll stop.’ – Tony McCoy

‘I’ve ridden 3,651 winners, if that’s any good to you. I don’t count the falls. I count the winners.’ – Tony McCoy

‘When I started off riding, you dream about being champion jockey. Then I wanted to be champion jockey again. Then I wanted to ride 200 winners in a season. Then, when there was a chance of riding more winners than Richard Dunwoody, that was my goal.’ – Tony McCoy

‘Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers – not governments – to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.’ – Charles Koch

‘Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.’ – Stephen Kinzer

‘The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.’ – Natalie Massenet

‘No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman’s failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin

‘Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.’ – Alex Berenson

‘I couldn’t have children, so that’s the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it’s not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.’ – Maeve Binchy

‘Politics isn’t a reality show or a gong show. It’s not show business for ugly people. It’s the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.’ – Michael Ignatieff

‘A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.’ – Andrew Vachss

‘My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.’ – Dale T. Mortensen

‘Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.’ – Marcel Duchamp

‘We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it’s not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.’ – Ted Cruz

‘I try not to repeat myself too often, but it’s a gamble. ‘Fred Claus’ had three Oscar winners in it. No business – it was a bad movie.’ – Elizabeth Banks

‘Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don’t win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.’ – Robert Robinson

‘Americans have a profound longing for heroes – now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our ‘Sully’ Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.’ – Hampton Sides

‘The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.’ – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

‘The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners – they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public’s attention to important work in economics.’ – Eric Maskin

‘I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don’t believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.’ – Ted Cruz

‘Your innovation can create new winners and losers; or at the very least, make existing companies look fresh and innovative by partnering with you. Everyone wants to align with market makers.’ – Jay Samit

‘The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.’ – Jerry Della Femina

‘When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, ‘I want to be like him.’ This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.’ – Yair Lapid

‘My next project is ‘Venus Vs,’ which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don’t realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive the prize and one of only 11 female winners in its history. Her award was the end of a very long journey from a remote farm in Rhodesia to a banquet at Stockholm’s Stadshus, the grand city hall in Stockholm.’ – Justin Cartwright

‘It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn’t have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me.’ – John Forbes Nash, Jr.

‘We need to improve our horrible position within the petroleum game by eliminating the EPA and other crippling bureaucracies that have turned the U.S. from the game’s biggest winners into its worst losers.’ – Robert Zubrin

‘We yelled, mostly, but bad enough that you wanted to fight. That’s how we became winners. We fought each other. When you did something wrong, we’d tell you about it.’ – Mickey Rivers

‘The winners at the Olympics step up, bursting with pride, because everything that they have worked for and all their dedication is rewarded in a climax that I, and most golfers, will never experience.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘New tech explosions create winners and losers, but overall are remarkably positive for the country, middle-class folks, the economy, jobs, and wages.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘History is written by the winners. My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can’t shout.’ – Ruth Negga

‘Our mental maps are distorted by who are the ‘winners’ of history and who are the powers of today.’ – Norman Davies

‘Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.’ – Norman Davies

‘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

‘War is a tragedy. It’s not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody’s a victim, from the one who’s suffering pain to the person inflicting it.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘As long as ISIS is not overtly losing, they’ll continue to be perceived as winners.’ – Ron Johnson

‘The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.’ – Raghuram Rajan

‘Having watched ‘X Factor’ over the years, they just haven’t got it right. The male winners haven’t been believable. They look like puppets; they sound like puppets.’ – James Arthur

‘I was asked, ‘Why do you think the male ‘X Factor’ winners haven’t been successful in the past?’ And I said, ‘Because obviously the body of work that they’ve brought out wasn’t good enough,’ and that was it.’ – James Arthur

‘People were telling me it was refreshing I was real because previous ‘X Factor’ winners were too afraid to say anything. I decided to go against the grain. But I took it too far.’ – James Arthur

‘Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.’ – Adam Cohen

‘In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman’s right to opt out is suicidal.’ – Kapil Sibal

‘Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.’ – Clive Cussler

‘The winners shouldn’t necessarily win, and the losers shouldn’t necessarily lose.’ – Martin Landau

‘Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of the voices that are vital to a round, robust society. It’s beyond gentrification.’ – Chris Sacca

‘Before I even agreed to work with Hennessy and the Privilege Awards, I wanted to do some research on it, look up past winners, and find out more about it.’ – Troy Carter

‘There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time… That’s the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it’s not going anywhere.’ – Eric McCormack

‘The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is that Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics teams he led stand alone as the ultimate winners.’ – Frank Deford

‘I used to always want to play the perfect match, and this meant not losing a point. The realisation came around the time I was 19 years old, in the French Open final in 2007. This was a key period in my career. I was told I was going for too many winners, which was affecting my game.’ – Ana Ivanovic

‘Google’s ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which media companies are successful and which ones are failures. If I adopt a business plan that doesn’t line up with Google’s, then they’re not going to reward me.’ – Franklin Foer

‘In every American election, crazy things are said. Positions are taken which the winners try very hard to forget afterwards.’ – Lee Hsien Loong

‘I love working with Oscar winners.’ – Jason Momoa

‘Take information technology. We have winners implementing CRM (customer relationship management systems) and losers implementing CRM. What mattered in technology is that the technology actually drives either cost reduction or superior strategy execution.’ – Tahl Raz

‘There are big winners in Paul Ryan’s ‘Roadmap,’ and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal – winning – and there are indeed winners and losers.’ – James Carville

‘Does the Grammys intentionally use artists for their celebrity, popularity, and cultural appeal when they already know the winners and then program a show against this expectation? Meanwhile, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences hides behind the ‘peer’ voting system to escape culpability for not even rethinking its approach.’ – Steve Stoute

‘Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to ‘pick winners and losers.’ They say we should run government ‘like a business’ and let ‘the market’ decide important matters. When it comes to the declining fortunes of dirty fuels like coal, however, they quickly they abandon these principles.’ – Tom Steyer

‘It doesn’t really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.’ – Jose Angel Gurria

‘The people I coach are very successful people, so it’s very hard for winners to not constantly win. Even if it’s trivial and not worth it, we still want to win – because we love winning. It’s a very deep habit.’ – Marshall Goldsmith

‘A rule of thumb is that the best investors focus on losers, and the winners take care of themselves.’ – Omar Amanat

‘The women at all levels of the entertainment industry – from interns to Oscar winners – who kept quiet to protect their careers should be a lesson to every CEO and HR department.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘There have been contestants on ‘The Voice’ from past seasons that didn’t even win, and I have been so inspired by them. To think that I am now one of those winners? I really, really hope there is a little girl out there that is believing in herself and knows that she can be here.’ – Brynn Cartelli

‘As with any season, there are plenty of people who would have made fabulous winners, and I just hope to honor the legacy of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ and I hope to continue to make my fans, my friends, my family, and my sisters from my season proud.’ – Aquaria

‘A lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.’ – Brian Littrell

‘I see life and the world simply as an arena for competition. That’s just what people do, and there are always going to be winners and losers.’ – Kerry James Marshall

‘I’ve taught people in improv classes, then watched them move to Los Angeles to become Emmy winners and movie stars. That experience, for anyone wondering, is both super exciting and also makes you put a microscope on your own life choices. It causes you to question why you still perform stand-up in so many Brooklyn basements.’ – Chris Gethard

‘I kept these games pretty intimate. You know, with this much money on the table, with this much risk, you wanted to make people feel safe. They don’t want to feel like they’re part of a spectator’s sport – well, the winners do, but the losers do not.’ – Molly Bloom

‘Whenever we’re on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It’s a joke.’ – Dan Smith

‘I think tennis is going towards the direction of powerful, hard hitters, and that’s what us tall people are. We are trying to play very aggressive; we’re trying to make a lot of winners, and, I mean, I don’t know. That’s what tall players kind of do.’ – Alexander Zverev

‘I’ve made it very clear that the government should get out of the business of trying to affect the markets, of trying to pick winners and losers.’ – Andrew Scheer

‘One thing that translates from college to the NFL is winners, and, I think, being a quarterback, that’s the biggest thing: being recognized, winning games.’ – Deshaun Watson

‘Real Madrid are a team of winners.’ – Jordan Henderson

‘Highs have to be all the trophies I won with Chelsea over the 8-9 years I was with them there. We had a good group, and we were winners from the goal keeper right throughout the team. These are the highs you never forget as a player.’ – Michael Essien

‘That’s something I learned at Lyon: how humble and grounded the best players in the world are. They’re always wanting more. At Lyon, they’re winners. At England, it’s the same.’ – Lucy Bronze

‘Rankings aren’t that important to me. I want a winners’ medal.’ – Phil Neville

‘I feel very happy that the society has matured and parents have opened up to their girls studying more and becoming working professionals and becoming bread winners for themselves.’ – Asin

‘You want to be winners.’ – Harry Maguire

‘You cannot underestimate Zidane’s achievement of winning the Champions League three times in a row – it must have taken superb skills to motivate the likes of Ronaldo, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema et al to have the desire to become serial Champions League winners.’ – Eniola Aluko

‘I think there is no set formula and there is no one path that can be taken to the crown as every one has their own way. Even when you look at past winners of Miss World, everyone was unique.’ – Manushi Chhillar

‘I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.’ – Tom Herman

‘In the quest for more equality in a society, when we think that men aren’t part of the solution, we’re truly wrong… We’re all winners when we unite for more equality.’ – Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

‘Every time a medal is won on the national or international platform, our country really enjoys winners but we don’t appreciate the effort that goes into creating winners.’ – Tahir Raj Bhasin

‘I never dreamed when I was competing at The Championships that I would one day be interviewing the winners on Centre Court for the BBC.’ – Sue Barker

‘The guys that go into the Hall of Fame are the winners, and the losers are the ones who put them in there, and I would like to see some of the great losers through the years be in the Hall of Fame. I know that that’s probably impossible, but you’ve got to give those losers credit, they made the winners.’ – Terry Funk

‘It’s time the government stopped using taxes to reward winners and losers in love.’ – S.E. Cupp

‘When you retire, people don’t look at how good you became. They look at what you’ve won. We remember the winners.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘One thing I want to do is get Silicon Valley to think harder about those who have been left behind by the technology revolution. It has created huge winners for those who are able to understand it and are adept at it. But it has also displaced a tremendous number of jobs.’ – Ro Khanna

‘You can look at any industry and sector and then figure out how high is your glass ceiling. Do you want to diversify or do you want to penetrate the ceiling? Because the ones who break the glass ceiling are going to be big-time winners, but it will be a longer-term view on things and requires a lot more courage, a lot more guts.’ – Ronnie Screwvala

‘Everyone kept saying, ‘The terrorists didn’t win. You won! We won! You survived!’ That’s just weird to me. Nobody wins in these situations. I don’t see winners and losers in tragic events.’ – Jeff Bauman

‘People understand that any major reform to pensions is likely to create losers as well as winners.’ – Angela Rayner

‘Normally when you look at the Ballon d’Or winners, they’re either attacking midfield players or centre-forwards. They are goalscorers and eye-catching players.’ – John Barnes

‘I love what I am doing on ‘SportsNation’ and to now have the opportunity to do even more on ‘Winners Bracket’ as part of ESPN Sports Saturday on ABC is the perfect situation.’ – Michelle Beadle

‘Yes, dodgeball encourages competitiveness. Yes, the stronger, more athletic kids are going to be more successful at it than the weaker ones, but what game doesn’t have winners and losers?’ – Kat Timpf

‘On ‘Best Week Ever,’ I met a few previous ‘Idol’ winners, and they were the nicest young people you’d ever want to meet. It is a tribute to them that they emerged from ‘Idol’s’ cynicism factory seemingly without mercury poisoning of the soul.’ – Paul F. Tompkins

‘There’s no second-place winners in this league.’ – Shawn Kemp

‘All winners are edgy. Guys that are pushing themselves are edgy. It’s the old saying we have in Kentucky: I’d rather have a guy I have to say whoa to, than giddyup.’ – Dwane Casey

‘Chocolate fondant, creme brule, and sponge cake with jam, cream and fresh berries are always winners.’ – Adriano Zumbo

‘Free-market capitalism doesn’t pick economic winners and losers based on the president’s economic nostalgia, and limited-government conservatism isn’t marked a top-down ideological conformity strictly enforced by state media organs.’ – Rick Wilson

‘EPA takes its Clean Air Act responsibilities seriously and is committed to providing certainty to state and industry partners. We will not use our authority to pick winners and losers in the energy marketplace.’ – Andrew R. Wheeler

‘Against Novak and Rafa, you have balls to hit, but they are so physically really tough. And Roger, he just takes position in the court. He tries to go forward all the time, go for the winners. Then you just don’t play tennis against him.’ – David Goffin

‘I think sometimes people will look at the ‘X Factor’ winners or they will look at reality TV shows and they will think actually you can have instant success, fame, money overnight.’ – Nicky Morgan

‘They have different styles. Scolari is used to coaching national teams and Mourinho clubs. Both are very successful. They are professionals as well as winners.’ – Oscar

‘Capital is always available for good companies, but the only question is value at which you raise capital. In bad times, you raise capital at low valuation, and in good times, you get a fair price. It separates winners from the rest.’ – Ritesh Agarwal

‘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

‘Everybody wants to be winners – you have to trust that God has a greater plan for this even when you can’t see it.’ – Tobin Heath

‘When we were at Stoke and we first got in to the Premier League we had been second in the Championship and were regular winners in that division. The following year we weren’t regular winners, so you have to manage yourself and you have to be positive yourself you have to lift the players.’ – Tony Pulis

‘You dream of scoring hat-tricks and scoring last minute winners when you are young.’ – Dwight Gayle

‘Pageantry is something I celebrate and support and… the role of these winners is to be an ambassador for everybody, whatever race, color or creed, and a role model.’ – Shanna Moakler

‘I played on three Super Bowl winners as an NFL player. In two of them, my team was a favorite to win.’ – Mark Schlereth

‘The people stand up from the chairs when I hit good winners. I like to do that.’ – Juan Martin del Potro

‘Both with Bayern and with the national team, I have a lot of teammates who have achieved a lot more than me – most of them are world champions, European champions or Champions League winners.’ – Joshua Kimmich

‘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

‘Reality shows are a beginning for people but I don’t think it’s a good platform because if you see any of the reality show winners… We really had to crawl our way up and find an opportunity in the industry to become famous but a reality show can’t give you that.’ – Neha Bhasin

‘Trump seems to be implementing a form of coercive capitalism – in which the president publicly picks winners and losers and uses the power of the office to force corporate leaders to make specific business decisions.’ – Brian Deese

‘Plenty of other franchises have reinvented themselves into winners after hitting rock bottom. The 1976 Tampa Bay team that went 0-14 arguably was worse than the 2008 Lions, but the Bucs reached the NFC Championship Game in 1979 and ultimately won the Super Bowl after the 2002 season.’ – Jemele Hill

‘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

‘No amount of prep-work, mental strength or advice from former contestants or winners can actually get you ready for life inside the Bigg Boss’ house.’ – Rubina Dilaik

‘During my first summer in college, I travelled to California for the first time for a beauty pageant. It was solely for monetary reasons because winners were to get scholarships.’ – Fala Chen

‘Florence Foster Jenkins was born in Pennsylvania in 1868 and left home because her father refused to allow her to fulfil her ambition to sing in public. Now, many might say that Pop Jenkins had it completely right and the daughter had it wrong, but those who we think are losers are often winners and vice-versa.’ – Maureen Lipman

‘It’s so important that we produce an all-in mentality. What that means for me is that we need to give everything to walk off the pitch as winners.’ – Hansi Flick

‘We make Ballon d’Or winners and others have to buy them.’ – Joan Laporta

‘They work their butts off in New England. As soon as you get into the offseason program, it’s non-stop. They want to be winners.’ – Darrelle Revis

‘Everyone likes winners and when the younger fans look at other countries, they like to see a team that is winning like Man City and Liverpool.’ – Diogo Jota

‘Not all British heroes may have been winners, but they were all fighters, people who have the tenacity never to give up. I feel a special kinship towards that, every day I feel myself absorbing more and more of that bulldog spirit.’ – Paolo di Canio

‘When it’s all said and done, people forget who was an All-Star what year or who finished where in the scoring race. They remember winners and guys who enjoyed playing the game.’ – David Lee

‘In my dreams, the players I admire the most, they stay on one team, they build a culture, and they become winners with that team.’ – Fernando Tatis Jr.

‘Giggsy was the standard-bearer. He ended up with 13 title winners’ medals, and I have won five, which is great, but I would always look at Giggsy and think five is feeble in comparison. That sounds really bad, but Giggsy and Paul Scholes were the yardstick, and their medals tally were what you would strive to match.’ – Darren Fletcher