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Winning Quotes
On victory, records, and staying grounded through a win.
Winning gets treated with real nuance here, including a surprisingly modest admission of never fully wrapping one's mind around it and a reminder that democracy calls for humility in victory. See also Game quotes.
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- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up watching the Olympics and did some athletics for my school, winning the Welsh pentathlon championship.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as we're winning, I'm fine.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no pleasing the British, or winning their favor. They simply hate politicians. All politicians. Hatred goes with politicians like mint sauce with lamb. It's as old as Parliaments.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Winning is a serious matter.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been fighting and winning all the fights in my division. I think I deserve a title shot.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020