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Winning Quotes to Inspire Competitors

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.

Table Of Contents
  1. Best Winning Quotes
  2. Motivational Sayings
  3. The Will to Win Quotations
  4. Quotes About Losing
  5. Impossible Winning Moments in Sports Video
  6. Inspiring Winning Sayings
  7. Good Winning Sayings
  8. Inspirational Winning Quotes
  9. Famous Quotes on Winning
  10. Short Victory Quotes
  11. Best Motivational Quotes

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

Winning quotes.

Motivational Sayings

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

About winning.

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

Impossible Winning Moments in Sports Video

Even Losers Get Lucky Sometimes

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

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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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