“When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.” PeopleIfsLooksWinningCommonTalkingEightSwedenInvigorating Author:Jim Gaffigan
“If you were in a game of football always think you need maybe eight to win the game. Three can on an off day or semi off day but you always hard. And the players recognize that and they'll do that extra to make sure they get winning. The essence of the team is to understand and trust each other and to trust me.” IfsThinkingNeedsHardThreeGamesWinningPlayerTeamFootballEssenceEightExtrasTrust Me Author:Alex Ferguson
“The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.” DonePainWinningDifficultWaterCrimeElectionDrinkingSurpriseGlassesEightTherapyInjuryConventionalSoarConventional Wisdom Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.” YearsHardWinningHoursPracticeFourWeekTenBasketballSeasonsFollowingEightCoachingEach DayNbaChampionshipFourteenUclaNational Championships Author:John Wooden
“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsAgeWinningGrowing UpGrowingBasketballSevenClubsEightGentlemanChampionshipVeteran Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.” IfsThinkingNeedsYearsSelfWinningShotsDoctorsEightPrizeHallsRoyalOld Self Author:David Tennant
“I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.” IfsNeedsMeanDreamWinningRecordsSixSevenEightBrokeAthleticReally MeanStandpoint Author:Lance Armstrong
“I'm pretty much happy with the things that have been handed to me already. Seven albums, eight arena tours ... I think there's nothing I really would look forward to besides winning a Grammy one day if that would happen.” IfsThinkingLooksHas BeensHappensWinningOne DaySevenAlbumsEightArenaGrammy Author:Bow Wow
“I guess I showed certain signs of being a workaholic in early years; I had a magazine route very early on - I must have been about seven or eight years old or something like that - when I was carrying Liberty magazine, trying to win green and brown coupons; I eventually [won] a pony.” TryingYearsHas BeensCertainWinningLibertyGreenSevenEightMagazinesBrownRoutesWorkaholicPonies Author:Walter Cronkite
“Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.” DifferentCoursesWinningTermMillionsEightRelativeChampionship Author:Oliver Kahn