Important Quotes

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

For me, being memorable is more important than winning.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.