Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

• adversity
• victory
• defeat
• failure

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious. Oswald Spengler

• victory
• planning

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. Ferdinand Foch

• will
• victory

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten. Bobby Bowden

• victory

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts" probably lost. Martina Navratilova

• sports
• victory

How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort. John Wooden

• sports
• preparation
• victory

A person who values winning above anything will do anything to win. And such people are threats to their organizations. John Wooden

• values
• victory

It is the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that insures victory. George Patton

• war
• victory

Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second. Bear Bryant

• victory

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• success
• victory
• failure

The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours. Woody Hayes

• sports
• victory
• time management