Winning means everything to fighters. It’s the one thing that determines their livelihood and to suffer a loss is a setback in their careers. However, some fighters bounce back by having a winning mentality. Here are some of the greatest winning quotes.
1 “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi
2 “If you’re confused about what to do, it’s a sign that your enemy is winning.” – Toba Beta
3 “No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.” – Tommy Lasorda
4 “When people ask me why I run, I tell them, there’s not really a reason, it’s just the adrenalin when you start, and the feeling when you cross that finish line, and know that you are a winner no matter what place you got.” – Courtney Parsons
5 “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.” – Jason Mraz
6 “Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.” – Toba Beta
7 “Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.” – Bryce Courtenay
8 “To win you need to have first lost. That makes you so hungry to win that you’ll do everything you can to achieve it.” – Brendon Clark
9 “Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.” – M.E Kerr
10 “Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it’s not about the W…It’s everything about the W with me!” – Bernard Hopkins
11 “Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.” – Carl Deuker
12 “Play to win because almost doesn’t cut it.” – Ana Monnar
13 “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
14 “In this life, you have winners and losers. the more you win, the higher you go.” – Daniel Nayeri
15 “Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.” – Albert Payson Terhune
16 “I hate to lose more than I love to win.” – Jimmy Connors
17 “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
18 “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all-time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” – Vince Lombardi
19 “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” – Vince Lombardi
20 “When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.” – Winston Churchill
21 “Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.” – John Wooden
22 “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
23 “Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.” – Erwin Rommel
24 “I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.” – Colin Powell
25 “The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.” – Francis Bacon
26 “I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.” – Richard M. Nixon
27 “A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.” – Pat Riley
28 “Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.” – George Orwell
29 “Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.” – George Steinbrenner
30 “A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.” – Billie Jean King
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