I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis.
The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.
There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.
The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.
We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.
My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.
My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.
This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.
Playing with friends is a victory.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
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.
At least is was a victory and at least we won.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.
My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.
If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
