Ah, doesn’t it feel so good to win? Who doesn’t love winning? Winning is defined in today’s world as being on top or beating an opponent in a competition. When a person wins in something, he is considered as superior, the best, the most powerful. Anywhere we go, in fact, every second of the day, someone out there is winning while another person is losing. Whether it be in politics, business, academics, athletic field; winners and losers exist. Although as human beings, we naturally desire to win in everything we do in life, very few of us know what it really means to win. The truth is some people win but are actually losing, while others lose but are actually winners. An athlete may win a running competition, but if he takes performance-enhancing drugs to do it, he is nothing but just a sore loser. If you run for politics and win the election but you have to lie and give false promises to the people, you are not a winner at all.
A person who plays the game fairly is the one that’s really winning in life. To become a winner, you must have integrity and values because they are what really define you. Winning means holding on to your values instead of compromising them. As you go through the most important endeavors in life, you will find that the quality of your relationships and values are what makes you a winner. One must see that others surrounding them are winning too. There is greater satisfaction and reward once the people we love or we work with are all winning in life. Wouldn’t it be great if we all win by focusing on working together instead of fighting each other to see who loses?
We know you aspire to become a winner too which is why we compiled these winning quotes for you. Use them as a reminder that it’s never impossible to win if you always give it your honest best!
Winning Quotes
1. When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric. – Al McGuire
2. If you lose, you can’t lead. If you don’t lead, you’re irrelevant. Winning is what it’s all about in politics. – Lionel Sosa
3. My winning is getting to perform. That’s my victory. – Kelly Clarkson
4. Playing tennis, I didn’t tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches. – Martina Navratilova
5. The big thing is to make a winning effort. I’m not obsessed with wins. – Morgan Wootten
6. There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. – James P. Carse
7. There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. – Alfred Hitchcock
8. Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. – Paul Bryant
9. First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great. – Alyssa Milano
10. Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half. – Bum Phillips
11. My whole life is about winning. I don’t lose often. I almost never lose. – Donald Trump
12. You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going. – Morgan Wootten
13. It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody’s contribution is important. – Gary David Goldberg
14. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
15. Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. – John Wooden
16. Winning and losing isn’t everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome. – Alex Morgan
17. A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. – Billie Jean King
18. Winning is fun. Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point. – Pat Summitt
19. Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything in second place. – William C. Bryant
20. Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning. – Erwin Rommel
21. Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. – Vince Lombardi
22. For me, the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that’s the most reward thing in the world. – Busta Rhymes
23. Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts. – Kobe Bryant
24. What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what’s thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going. – Patrick Swayze
25. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is. – Arnold Palmer
26. A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. – Pat Riley
27. The key to winning is poise under stress. – Paul Brown
28. I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually, they make the difference between winning and losing. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
29. Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away. – Richie Benaud
30. People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning. – Kobe Bryant
31. I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. – Colin Powell
32. Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don’t take chances then you’ll never have a winning hand, and I’ve no regrets. – Bernard Cornwell
33. We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champion’s mindset. And champion’s mindset isn’t always about winning. It’s about putting everything you have on the field, every ounce of passion and energy you have. And if you get knocked down, overcoming adversities. – Travis Kalanick
34. Winning is not always the barometer of getting better. – Tiger Woods
35. Nothing is black and white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much. – Steve Nash
36. The secret to winning is constant, consistent management. – Tom Landry
37. Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result. – Joe Torre
38. Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. – Norman Mailer
39. Everyone talks about age, but it’s not about age. It’s about work ethic. Winning never gets old. – Lisa Leslie
40. Winning isn’t always championships. – Michael Jordan
41. Don’t believe that winning is really everything. It’s more important to stand for something. If you don’t stand for something, what do you win? – Lane Kirkland
42. The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Pythagoras
43. I didn’t lose. I got second. That’s still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position. – Lauren Alaina
44. Winning is like shaving, you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum. – Jack Kemp
45. 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
46. Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself. – Roger Staubach
47. Winning is the most important. Everything is the consequence of that. – Ayrton Senna
48. Chemistry is a very important element for any team that wants to be serious about winning. – Scottie Pippen
49. For me, being memorable is more important than winning. – Ricki Lake
50. Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing. – Dwyane Wade
51. Winning, that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that. – Cristiano Ronaldo
52. As a tennis player, you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practiced self-control as a kid. But as you get older, they both, winning and losing get easier. – Rafael Nadal
53. I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything. – Saina Nehwal
54. The person that said winning isn’t everything, never won anything. – Mia Hamm
55. Anyone can support a team that is winning – it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage. – Bart Starr
56. Ultimately, if you can say that I’m a bad owner and we’re winning championships, I can live with that. But if we’re not making the playoffs and we’re spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I’m not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization. – Michael Jordan
57. About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation. – Tom Wilson
58. When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there’s no way you could be a good winner. – Halle Berry
59. Nothing creates a winner quite like earning it, not just inheriting it. – Kellyanne Conway
60. I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way. I hope it never will. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
61. I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that’s what gets people to buy in to your brand, being a winner. – Chris Paul
62. I’m a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me. – David Ortiz
63. I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring. – George Foreman
64. People like to work for a winner. – Steven Burd
65. Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. – Mike Krzyzewski
66. I can’t be casual about losing. I always think I have a chance to win until winning is absolutely impossible. – Arnold Palmer
67. There is winning and there is misery. – Bill Parcells
68. If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis that’s a lot longer than your tennis life. – Chris Evert
69. There’s always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. – Pat Riley
70. The determination to win is the better part of winning. – Daisaku Ikeda
71. Swimming isn’t everything, winning is. – Mark Spitz
72. In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions. – Don Yaeger
73. I’m competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don’t really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best. – Lucas Grabeel
74. After I won Miss India, I realized I do not like failing. I just like being the best. I hate being a loser. So I just have to keep winning. – Priyanka Chopra
75. When you’re winning, you’re creating a dynasty. – Kevin Plank
76. Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge. – DJ Khaled
77. One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. – Oscar Wilde
78. Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it’s with the hope of winning something more. – Derek Kilmer
79. Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half. – Paul Bryant
80. Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before. – Bonnie Blair
81. It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first. – Jackie Robinson
82. One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. – Hunter S. Thompson
83. I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web. – Michelle Kwan
84. I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you’re interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is. – Kurt Russell
85. It doesn’t matter if you’re winning or losing. You’ve got to be the same guy; you’ve got to prepare the same. – Carson Wentz
86. We count on winning. And if we lose, don’t beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is, don’t lose. – Knute Rockne
87. I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning. – Tom Cruise
88. You always get a buzz from winning. Winning is everything. – Tony McCoy
89. The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning’s better. – Ted Turner
90. Better to take smart risks and focus on winning because, if you don’t, your competition will. – John Rampton
91. Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. – Dianne Feinstein
92. If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who’s 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you’ll find that he’s the main reason why you’re losing, which is absurd for me. – Joe Torre
93. It feels like we all win when Joe wins. People know the struggle, everything I had to overcome. People feel like that’s them winning. If Joe could do it, they could do it. – Fat Joe
94. Don’t judge a person on winning or losing. – Dong Dong
95. I never did say that you can’t be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up. – Leo Durocher
96. You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. – Arthur Ashe
97. Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal. – Larry Dixon
98. By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. – Lao Tzu
99. No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink. – Bill Parcells
100. Winning is the science of being totally prepared. – George Allen, Sr.
101. I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism. – Whittaker Chambers
102. A winning effort begins with preparation. – Joe Gibbs
103. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. – George Orwell
104. I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling. – Jennie Finch
105. After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent. – Lou Holtz
106. One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don’t invite the losing team to the White House. They don’t have parades for them. They don’t throw confetti at them. – John Madden
107. We get so caught up in winning all the time, but it’s also even more important to be a good person, so that’s what I learned. – Aly Raisman
108. If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life. – Tom Landry
109. The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got. – Lou Holtz
110. The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty. – Orison Swett Marden
111. This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He’s been winning the game for a long time. – Taylor Hackford
112. I’ve always said winning’s the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart. – John Madden
113. There’s always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. – Vaclav Havel
114. I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn’t care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I’m thinking: ‘Of course I want to win. I’ve been winning my entire life.’ – James Harden
115. Winning excuses everything. – Cam Newton
116. It’s often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you’re wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a loss. You learn what is it that we’re not doing to get to where we want to go. It really gets your attention and it really motivates the work ethic of your team when you’re not doing well. – Morgan Wootten
117. No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning. – Richard Petty
118. The underdog winning is the romantic position. – Malcolm Gladwell
119. Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It’s hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world. – Yehuda Berg
120. Losing feels worse than winning feels good. – Vin Scully
121. I love winning, and I love the challenge. – Sonny Bill Williams
122. If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career. – Andres Iniesta
123. It’s not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It’s the setback. It’s the loss. – Beth Brooke
124. The game itself is bigger than the winning. – Dejan Stojanovic
125. In New York, they like winners. They don’t like second place. – Eli Manning
126. If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. – Zig Ziglar
127. I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don’t need a lot of talent. – Paul Bryant
128. Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life.
129. Ever notice that people never say “It’s only a game” when they’re winning? – Ivern Ball
130. There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it. – Steffi Graf
131. Winners are naturally bullish. – Merrill Lynch
132. If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record. – Jan McKeithen
133. When you win, nothing hurts. – Joe Namath
134. Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said, ‘it’s not about the W.’ It’s everything about the W with me. – Bernard Hopkins
135. Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next. – George Steinbrenner
136. Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble. – John Madden
137. Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive. – Donald Trump
138. A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. – Sydney J. Harris
139. You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser. – Joe Namath
140. A winner never stops trying. – Tom Landry
141. God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner. – Joel Osteen
142. Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser. – Joshua Waitzkin
143. Never change a winning game; always change a losing one. – Bill Tilden
144. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! – Karl Lagerfeld
145. A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. – Napoleon Hill
146. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. – Harper Lee
147. If you’re confused about what to do, it’s a sign that your enemy is winning. – Toba Beta
148. Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don’t have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up. – Amby Burfoot
149. When you win, you don’t examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you’ve worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn’t particularly define you beyond those characteristics. – Lance Armstrong
150. It’s easy to win. Anybody can win. – Philip K. Dick
151. Know you will win and you will win. – Stephen Richards
152. Law is made by the winner to preserve the victory over the loser. – Toba Beta
153. Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do. – Bryce Courtenay
154. If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn’t mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they’ve given it their best. That’s a winner. – Walter Payton
155. Focus on what you are and what you can rather than what others aren’t and can’t. You have to win; they don’t necessarily have to lose for you. – Alok Mishra
156. Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. – Albert Payson
