Winning at All Costs Quotes

It is not enough that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

You're either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history, regardless of which team wins, the people always lose.

Politicians are ready to suspend their beliefs or policy positions in the name of electoral success. When belief collides with public opinion, belief often goes.

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

My character isn't supposed to be flashy and be over-the-top. I'm supposed to be dirty in the ring. I'm supposed to kick and punch, and I'm supposed to cheat and find ways to win at all costs.

I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

We cannot always shine and play to our very best, but as long as we win, it doesn't matter.

It's just, some players I don't respect. Just their playing style of basketball. I don't respect it. I feel like it's basically cheating and I don't respect a cheater. If that's your tactic to winning, I don't respect you.

I don't care about history; all I care about is winning.

Too frequently, we hear about coaches and programs willing to win at any cost.

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.

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

I feel like, there's no fair in fighting: you do whatever it takes to win. Obviously, sometimes I cheat to win, but it's not illegal.

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

I'm willing to take any amount of pain to win.

I'm going to do anything to win. I'm just going to do anything to win.

Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

Maybe the critics are right. Maybe there's no escaping our great political divide, an endless clash of armies, and any attempts to alter the rules of engagement are futile. Or maybe the trivialization of politics has reached a point of no return, so that most people see it as just one more diversion, a sport, with politicians our paunch-bellied gladiators and those who bother to pay attention just fans on the sidelines: We paint our faces red or blue and cheer our side and boo their side, and if it takes a late hit or cheap shot to beat the other team, so be it, for winning is all that matters. But I don't think so.

Just understand that I'm trying to get to the quarterback by any means necessary. And if I have to throw somebody out of the way to do it, it is what it is.

At the end of the day it's better to be an unpleasant winner than a nice loser.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.