It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt’s winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations. – Walter Russell Mead
As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like. – Sergio Perez
I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never has been. – Tyson Fury
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn’t win. – William Shatner
I didn’t want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It’s easy to do. It’s easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it’s been a good motivator for me to work a little harder. – Webb Simpson
Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better. – Tim Howard
By the time the 2008 election arrived, we had finally won the Iraq War, or we were on the road to winning it. We won starting in the summer of 2007 going into late 2011. – Tom Cotton
Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline. – Tyler Hamilton
I was a little bit lost in my head after winning a Grand Slam. You’re like: ‘So what’s the next goal? What do you want now? Where do you want to be? It’s not a problem if you lose.’ – Stanislas Wawrinka
On the field I’m trying to play for the glory of God but then also I’m trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we’re playing. – Tim Tebow
Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game. – Steve Carell
Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me. – Steven Lopez
When you start playing tennis, you don’t imagine there’s a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups. – Venus Williams
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it’s a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there. – Sachin Tendulkar
Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it’s about sporting achievements and it’s about personality, then I’m a winner hands down. – Tyson Fury
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing. – William Glasser
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
It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates. – Warren Moon
I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket. – Virat Kohli
It’s not winning or losing. It’s the friends and the people that you meet along the way. – Summer Altice
I think that more than the winning, the weeks where I don’t play well are what drive me the most. – Tom Lehman
When we win, I’m excited about winning. That way, I get the ups and downs of a football season. But I also know that it’s never as good as it seems; it’s never as bad as seems. You always have to stay focused because you never know, for me. My role, it could expand. So you just got to always be ready. – Tim Tebow
I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That’s what it’s all about, is winning. I’m a competitor… People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can’t wait to shut that down. I’m a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates. – Shabazz Muhammad