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“How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy's got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors. He's been the biggest thing ever in our sport. How could some little 23-year-old from Northern Ireland with a few wins come up and intimidate him.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.”

Ifs I Can Winning Sports Can Do Whatever It Takes

Author:Dontrelle Willis

“Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.”

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Author:Dontrelle Willis

“The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.”

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Author:Mike Weir

“I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.”

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Author:Dan Marino

“I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.”

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Author:Dan Marino

“When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.”

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Author:Bill Bradley

“If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.”

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Author:Daley Thompson

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.”

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Author:Brian Griese

“I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.”

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Author:Mike Ditka

“The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.”

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Author:Venus Williams

“My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.”

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Author:Michael Strahan

“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!”

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Author:Max Schmeling

“I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.”

“I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.”

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Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.”

Inspirational Heart Winning Sports Athlete Legs Racing Right Place

Author:Lance Armstrong

“You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.”

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Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.”

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Author:Lance Armstrong

“I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?”

Source: Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition

“The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.”

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Author:Jacques Ellul

“Of all the things in sports, getting a sack is one of the hardest things to do. It's like a last-second, game-winning shot in the NBA. A guy hits the last-second shot, and the fans scream. For us (defensive ends), the sack is everything. It's hard to get there. But once you do, there's nothing like it.”

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Author:Dwight Freeney

“It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.”

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Author:Tony Romo

“Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.”

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Author:Rick Reilly

“These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.”

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Author:Jerry Sloan

“I've been in Philadelphia 10 years, man. I knew it was going to be a challenge, mentally. I always thought life would come to an end if I ever left Philadelphia. And I feel like a newborn. Being in Denver it's just a better situation for me. And I'm just happy that I feel like I got an opportunity where I can win basketball games here.”

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Author:Allen Iverson

“I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.”

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Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.”

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Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!”

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Author:Bobby Bonilla

“He who gets the best players usually wins.”

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Author:Bobby Bowden

“But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.”

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Author:Bode Miller

“In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.”

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Author:Bode Miller

“When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.”

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Author:Chi Chi Rodriguez

“I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.”

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Author:Dan Fouts

“I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.”

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Author:Dan Fouts

“When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.”

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Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.”

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Author:Don Baylor

“It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.”

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Author:Don Baylor

“And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.”

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Author:Don Shula

“I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.”

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Author:Dusty Baker

“Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning.”

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Author:Elvis Stojko

“No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together.”

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Author:Frank Robinson

“I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.”

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Author:Greg Maddux

“I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.”

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Author:Greg Maddux

“Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.”

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Author:Ivan Lendl

“If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.”

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Author:Mark Messier

“I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.”

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Author:Rick Pitino