The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.
My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.
Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.
In the NBA, you win, and you think you're going to win tomorrow. But as soon as you lose, you don't think you're ever going to win again.
We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can't remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.
If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.
If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.
Obviously, you're being evaluated every single week, and you want to perform every single week. It's just going out there and doing everything possible to help the team win.
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.
Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.
Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.
Most people assume that when you go to court and win your case that you are guaranteed to get your money. Sadly, this isn't always the case.
Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.
Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.
It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.
As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.
You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.
I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.
At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.
I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
The will to win is the only thing.
In order to win, you must expect to win.
Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.
Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.
It wasn't like anybody said, 'Oh, Ronald Reagan will have a landslide in 1980.' In fact, you look back at the Dukakis numbers, the Perot numbers, there was always this presumption that the Republican was going to lose. Not just that the Democrat would win, but that the Republican was going to lose.