The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

You probably don’t need more weapons than what’s required to destroy every city on earth. There’s only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons – well, we’ve got more than 25,000!

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

Losing is tough.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

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

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. 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.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

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.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.