Top 1200 Prize Winning Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

It's not just the winning I like, it's the affection you get for winning. It's a lovely feeling, that.

I picture success and winning. The body has a physical response to mental images of winning.

I'd take winning the championship over winning a Chase race any day of the week.

Winning breeds more winning, that's what I've learnt. Getting on a roll is important.

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought.

Everybody wants to be a winner. Winning for you is everything, right? Wrong, winning is the only thing!

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.

I'm sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don't lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.

For me, winning the Champions League would be an incredible feeling and winning that trophy was one of the reasons I joined Milan.

Winning the BAFTA for 'Young Apprentice' felt great. It's really nice to be part of the winning team.

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

Winning one Champions League title is a dream come true, so just imagine winning three!

Modi winning or not winning is not important. I can go home tomorrow & open a tea stall but the nation must not suffer.

Winning is important in this league. Just check your ego at the door. It's all about winning. That's what we all should be striving for.

Winning influences, it helps, it gets the kids. Winning makes an impact.

I love winning more than anything, so, yeah, winning.

I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.'

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?

When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive the prize and one of only 11 female winners in its history. Her award was the end of a very long journey from a remote farm in Rhodesia to a banquet at Stockholm's Stadshus, the grand city hall in Stockholm.

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.

I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.

Winning one league title at Roma to me is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

All I have to do is keeping on focusing on what Max Holloway does, and that's winning - and winning fashionably.

When you get older, you realise it's all about winning games and winning trophies.

If you want to have that winning feeling, it's best to keep on winning.

When you have a run of games where you keep winning and winning, you know it must end.

Winning the World Series, winning the MVP, you feel like you have everything.

Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

My job is to just make winning plays when I'm out on the court, and hopefully we're winning. That's all I want.

The most important thing to me is winning tournaments. I love winning.

You always get a buzz from winning. Winning is... everything.

I want to give some advice; to win you need champions who are used to winning and who have the winning mentality.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to my close friend, the writer Liu Xiaobo, who is imprisoned in China. To me it was confirmation that universal values and a moral code do exist, and that the point of the Nobel Prize is to encourage writers to stand up for this moral code. Last Thursday I was once again on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Prize for Literature had gone to Mo Yan. He is a state poet. I am utterly bewildered. Do these universal values not exist after all?

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

It's not always about winning a game or winning a championship.

There's nothing like winning and winning at a high level.

Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination.

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.

I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.

There's only one thing better than winning 14 world titles - and that's winning 15.

I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

I'll dive on loose balls. I'll get the winning rebound, hit the winning shot. I'll do whatever it takes to win a game.

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

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

It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.

Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering.

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

I know some people say "Keep your eyes on the prize," but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you're going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you've got to keep your eyes focused on the path.