The best winning quotes can inspire you to achieve even bigger things in life. Life is about moving from one goal to another, overcoming obstacles, meeting challenges head-on, and overcoming.
Getting a win matters in all walks of life. Whether it is in professional or personal life, everyone wants to succeed. To hear most professional athletes speak it’s a driving force in their will to prepare.
Share some of these words with your friends, teammates, and colleagues to inspire them. You can never know that a little bit of motivation can mean a big thing to someone.
Best Winning Quotes
1.) A winner never stops trying.
Tom Landry
2.) All right, mister, let me tell you that winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.
Vince Lombardi
3.) Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.
Steve Nash
4.) A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
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5.) 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
6.) All right, Mister, let me tell you what winning means? You’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.
Vince Lombardi
7.) There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill
Good Winning Quotes
8.) 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.
Bertie C. Forbes
9.) You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
Robert Collier
10.) The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister – See Victory Quotes
The Will to Win Quotations
Winning is the most important thing in my life after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
George Steinbrenner
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
Babe Ruth
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
Muhammad Ali
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
Muhammad Ali
The determination to win is the better part of winning.
Daisaku Ikeda
Quotes About Losing
To understand winning quotes, you must understand the flip side of the coin: losing.
Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners.
Unknown
Show me a gracious loser, and I’ll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
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 a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.
Alymer Letterman
We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
William S. Burroughs
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Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.
M. E. Kerr
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Karl Lagerfield
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
Nido Qubein
I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.
Tom Brady
Define Winning
The meaning varies from one person to another. To an athlete, it means scoring more or coming ahead of the opponent. To others, it means achieving goals or overcoming challenges.
Whether it’s achieving your short-term or long-term goals, the word inspires and motivates you to reach newer horizons. With every win, you grow in one or the other way. It adds something new and positive to you, improving your confidence and encouraging you to pursue new challenges and goals.
In all its diversities and magnitudes, it is the underlying driving force that keeps you going in life.
Inspiring Winning Sayings
Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.
Vince Lombardi
Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.
Charles M. Schulz
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
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Zig Ziglar
The person that said winning isn’t everything, never won anything.
Mia Hamm
Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything in second place.
William C. Bryant
Winning isn’t everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important.
Andrew Shue
Once you have decided that winning isn’t everything, you become a winner.
George A. Sheehan
Winning isn’t everything — it’s just all there is.
Paul Newman
Good Winning Sayings
Winning is fun. Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.
Pat Summitt – Check out the Pat Summitt Foundation to find a cure for Alzheimer’s
Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.
Kobe Bryant
The key is not the will to win; everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Bobby Knight
Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before.
Bonnie Blair
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
Bryce Courtenay
To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Little Things Make A Difference
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually, they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph
Play to win because almost doesn’t cut it.
Ana Munnar
For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowd roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
Emmitt Smith
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.
Sheri L. Dew
Inspirational Winning Quotes
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding, and nurturing your people and heart. Winning is the result.
Joe Torre
I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there; I gave it everything I had. (And,) I left everything out there. That’s what I’m most proud of.
Jimmy Connors
I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don’t really worry about the result if there’s great commitment on the field. That’s victory for me.
Lou Gehrig
If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.
Elon Musk
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
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
Winning is the most important thing in my life after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
George Steinbrenner
Famous Quotes on Winning
Famous winning quotes from the likes of Michael Jordan and John Wooden.
It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Michael Jordan
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
Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.
John Wooden
Winning in life is more than outpacing out your opponents; it is maximizing your potential to the fullest of your ability.
Dr. Ignatius K Otchere-Asamoah
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unity is strength. When there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself to be
Lou Holtz
Short Victory Quotes
These short winning quotes are to the point.
There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
Lionel Messi
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
Bryce Courtenay
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all, I love to play.
Boris Becker
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.
Jason Mraz
Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
Babe Ruth
Best Motivational Quotes
For athletes and entrepreneurs, here are some great motivational quotes for inspiration.
Where there is unity, there is always victory.
Publilius Syrus
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
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
The biggest thrill wasn’t in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.
Art Rooney
If you don’t try to win, you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s backyard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
Jesse Owens
I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
Colin Powell
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you’re behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Arthur Ashe
Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The only way you shut them up is by winning.
Chuck Noll
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
Bill Tilden
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
Notable Quotes on the Will to Win
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
If you can’t win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
John McKeithen
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Arthur Ashe
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
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley
For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar.
Emmitt Smith
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure.
Theodore Roosevelt
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
Vince Lombardi
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is a sports author and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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