A Quote by Amos Alonzo Stagg

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

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Behind Finer Something Unless Winning Worthwhile

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Amos Alonzo Stagg
American - Coach
August 16, 1862 - March 17, 1965

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

Julia Child

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Theodore Roosevelt

Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!

Sandy Lyle

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Henry David Thoreau

Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

Magnus Carlsen

Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

Alfred Armand Montapert

There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.

Greg Bear

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

Shinichi Suzuki

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

Piper Laurie

All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.

Hermann Hesse

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

Stan Smith

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

Alan Alda

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.