Being a winner is more than about achieving goals. It is about cultivating a right attitude. Winners not only never give up on what they want, but also have gratitude and pursuit of meaning. Greatest quotes about winning will encourage you take responsibility for your actions and inspire you to have the qualities of a winner.
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Famous Winning Quotes
Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. Mark Gorman
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
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday. Jason Mraz
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. Summer Sanders
Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before. Bonnie Blair
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts. Kobe Bryant
It’s not just about winning or losing, but to learn about teamwork, learn about sportsmanship, learn about discipline. The value of working together for a common goal. Have the emphasis on fundamentals, not just games. Erik Spoelstra
It’s not the will to win that matters everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. Paul Bryant
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
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi
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
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.
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. Barbara Bush
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat, They do not exist. A.J. Balfour
Winning is not a sometime thing it’s an all the 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. Vince Lombardi
A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. Napoleon Hill
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. Ross Perot
When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins. Angie Stone
Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best and putting up a good show for the spectators. Lin Dan
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Denis Waitley
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. Denis Waitley
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
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before. Rafael Nadal
Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. Emmitt Smith
To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way. Eliud Kipchoge
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. Mike Krzyzewski
The hardest thing about winning is to continue to win, and I think human instinct says OK, I’ve done this before. I got it, let’s just keep doing what we’re doing. Greg Olsen
A winner never stops trying. Tom Landry
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. Gary Gygax
Believe that success is the only option. Larry Bird
I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Adlai Stevenson I
In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting. Magic Johnson
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. Pierre de Coubertin
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Wilma Rudolph
A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I’m doing. It’s not always winning. People, I think, mistake that it’s just winning. Sometimes it could be, but for me, it’s hitting the best sets I can, gaining confidence, and having a good time and having fun. Simone Biles
Everyone has a will to win. But very few have the will to prepare to win. Vince Lombardi
I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn’t about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that’s when I started to relax. Snoop Dogg
You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Harper Lee
For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that’s the most reward thing in the world. Busta Rhymes
Nothing is black and white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much. Steve Nash
What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what’s thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going. Patrick Swayze
Persistence is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up. Lynda Field
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
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. George Meredith
For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I’ve had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I’ll never forget either feeling. Ronaldinho
Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second. Paul Bryant
Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people’s faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are. MS Dhoni
You can’t win unless you learn how to lose. Abdul Jabbar
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
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself to be. Lou Holtz.
In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions. Don Yaeger
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. Vince Lombardi
I’m happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that’s what’s gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that’s what I’m most proud of. T.I.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar
What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I’m going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing. Hugh Jackman
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past. Tom Peters
We don’t believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom. Martin McGuinness
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! Karl Lagerfeld
Anyone can support a team that is winning it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage. Bart Starr
To win you have to risk loss.Claude Killy.
My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table. Louise Erdrich
Winning is fun. Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Pat Summit
I don’t know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it’s crazy. It’s such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It’s like winning the lottery. I’m proud to be a member of such an amazing cast that’s the best award of all. Hailee Steinfeld
Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning. Andrew Tobias
Nobody impacts winning more than LeBron James. Frank Vogel
