Win Your Game Quotes

“You don't win a game by focusing on things you cannot control. You win it by focusing on those things that you can.”

— Melissa McPhail

“There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.”

— Laura Lee Guhrke

“We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn't dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we'll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.”

— Jason Williams

“I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.”

— Jon Beason

“Every game has rules. Obey the rules, win the game; disobey the rule, lose it! The game of life has loser and winners. Play fairly and win!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say." He said something similar now: "Excuses don't win a game. You should try strategy.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.”

— Lorrie Fair

“I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives.”

— Graham Roberts

“Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.”

— Steve Spurrier

“If you can't win the game, if you can't solve the puzzle, then you're just a loser.- Near”

— Tsugumi Ohba

“When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.”

— Tom Landry

“You cannot win the game if you don't play the game”

— Anonymous.

“I've always learned when you win a game, no matter what the stats look like, you have to enjoy the victories because they are hard to come by.”

— Mike Tice

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

— Voltaire

“I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.”

— Weili Dai

“Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.”

— Drew Bledsoe

“Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic ... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.”

— Bill Parcells

“Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. It's a fact of nature that no one can change. I'm sorry, but maybe you can play next time when it's less crucial.”

— Francine Pascal

“The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row
a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.”

— Ted Danson

“You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.”

— Xavier Becerra

“You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.”

— Randall Dale Adams

“I'm a teammate guy, so whatever I can do to help my team to win like I have the past two years, that's what I want to do. If it takes for me to play first base, third base, right field, I just want to win the game.”

— Albert Pujols

“Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.”

— Rick Riordan

“It's not an issue. Everyone's focused on us trying to get a victory. That's where the focus lies ... We're trying to win a game. Who cares about that (other stuff). If we'd played 'em two years ago when it happened, maybe it would be different.”

— Donnie Edwards

“If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.”

— Mariano Rivera

“The topdog may win the game of force. But not the moral issue - and when that dawns upon him and his allies, change of consciousness sets in, and demoralization starts thawing the frozen heart. The game is over.”

— Johan Galtung

“In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.”

— Johan Santana

“Our job is to get on the road and win one game now. It's a great position to be in. We were lucky to get home ice [advantage] this year. For some reason, we pulled it off at the end and we took advantage early in the series. Now, it's up to us to do our thing on the road.”

— Martin Brodeur

“I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.”

— Martin O'Neill

“England are playing fantastic cricket at the moment, they have a great team and I know all the Aussies are looking forward to getting over there. We'll be doing everything in our power to get over there and win every game if possible.”

— Michael Clarke

“You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness”

— Brad Stevens

“You play to win the game.”

— Herman Edwards

“One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand that you have to be able to criticize constructively. When you have someone who is always on your case and it's never good enough no matter how you win a game, it just brings you down, you lose confidence. And as a chess player you have to be confident, you have to believe in yourself.”

— Hikaru Nakamura

“You didn't win the game of life by losing the least. That would be one of those-what were they called again?-Pyrrhic victories. Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later.”

— Tommy Wallach

“Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players, too, feel this way.”

— Wasim Akram

“Win the game in your mind, before the starting whistle.”

— William Cranch Bond

“Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.”

— Jon Miller

“No individual can win a game by himself.”

— Pele

“The reality is it's still in our hands. We have to play four real good games against the Angels. If we take three of four we're still two back and then we'd need help. We'd still be breathing, but we'd need help. We'll shoot all our bullets to try and win that game (Monday) and worry about the next day when we get there.”

— Ken Macha

“The good quarterbacks in this league, if you're not playing your best, sometimes will win a game for you”

— Kerry Rhodes

“Don't let us win tonight. This is a big game. They've got to win because if we win we've got Pedro coming back today and then Schilling will pitch Game 6 and then you can take that fraud stuff and put it to bed. Don't let the Sox win this game.”

— Kevin Millar

“I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game.”

— Ice-T

“I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.”

— Alex Ferguson

“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.”

— Alex Ferguson

“In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.”

— Mickey Mantle

“You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.”

— Vince Lombardi

“I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.”

— Lou Holtz

“Never Play With The Feelings Of Others, Because You May Win The Game But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time”

— William Shakespeare