winning quotes

The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning.It'snothingofthekind.Thegame isabout glory. It's about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.

- Danny (Robert Dennio) Blanchflower
Quoted in Hunter Davis  The Glory Game (1972).

But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

- (Alfred) Alistair Cooke
Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

The most important thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking partjust as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

- Pierre de, Baron Coubertin
  Speech to Olympic Games officials, London, 24  Jul.

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.

-John Dryden
  Alexander's Feast, l.97^102.

Oh, is there not one maiden here Whose homely face and bad complexion Have caused all hopes to disappear Of ever winning man's affection?

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Frederic's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.

-Vince(ntThomas) Lombardi
Attributed. His exact words were'Winning isn't everything, but making the effort is'. Some sources attribute the saying to Red Sanders, coach of the University of California team.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to is.

- Arnold Palmer
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Answering the question as to whether we are winning that is a very difficult one.

- Donald Rumsfeld
  Television interview, 27 Jun.

Never change a winning game: always change a losing one.

- Bill (WilliamTatem II) Tilden
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).