#winning

More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#winning #courage

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

#again #almost #been #career #failed

Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game? ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#beauty

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#because #big #big break #break #cambridge

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #boxing #devastating #feeling #hit

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. ↗

— Barack Obama

#argument #because #clearly #country #day

You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#another #aspect #bottom #day #doing

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#nation #our #security #war #winning

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#battle #fight #gain #winning #you

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal. ↗

— Hope Solo

#day #end #end of the day #everything #gold